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The Lake Agassiz Regional Library Sugarbeet Series is about
the story of us.

Each exciting event brings us closer as a region by celebrating who we are and how we
got here. These events showcase our culture, and our ties to agriculture.

Our valley has rich soil and a rich history. The marriage of land and those

who work it dates back as far as our first settlers. From humble roots, the Red River
Valley has grown into a region characterized by its quirks and kindness.

Lake Agassiz Regional Library proudly supports our rural Minnesota communities.
Our libraries and LINK Sites serve as gathering spaces where anyone can pick up
a book and discover new worlds, or where neighbors can immerse themselves in
the stories of their own back yard.

Each Sugarbeet Series Event is free and open to the public. Bring your family, your
friends, your elders and your children. Experience our legendary region through music,
history, writing, poetry, photography, comedy and magic.

Like the sugarbeets that tie us all together, we hope you emerge with new knowledge,
grow with new experiences and harvest the sweet rewards the arts and our Minnesota
cultural heritage provide.

Be sure to pick up an entire Sugarbeet Series Event Booklet at any of Lake Agassiz Regional Library's 23 locations!

Thank you,

Lake Agassiz Regional Library

The Beat Goes On, So On with the Series!
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Programming is sponsored by Lake Agassiz Regional Library and supported
in part or in whole with money from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage fund.
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SkÃ¥lmusikSkålmusik
Traditional Scandinavian Music

Founded in 1990, Skålmusik (pronounced Skoalmusik) of Brainerd, Minnesota is a five piece ensemble that performs traditional Scandinavian and Scandinavian/American dance and vocal music.
Native Midwesterners often remark that Skålmusik really know how to "put the 'yump'" in their tunes! They have toured widely in the Midwest and beyond, playing at a variety of events including ethnic festivals, community celebrations, state fairs, and, of course, old time dances.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10:
10:00 a.m. - Climax Community Center
2:00 p.m. - Fertile Library 
6:30 p.m. - Shelly LINK Site

  

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11:
10:30 a.m. - Mahnomen Library
1:00 p.m. - Ada Library 
7:00 p.m. - Rothsay Community Center

Niagra Sugar Rush
Red River Valley
Sugarbeet Industry History
 
Allan Dragseth and Roger Odegaard are third generation sugarbeet farmers. Together they co-founded the Red River Sugarbeet Museum in Crookston. Allan is the current president and Roger is the vice president. They both had exhaustive collections of memorabilia related to both sugarbeet farming and sugarbeet industry in the Red River Valley, much of which they have donated to the museum. They have acquired many antique and vintage pieces of equipment for the Sugarveet Museum, and much of it has been restored. In addition, Allan has collected old movies  featuring sugarbeet harvests from the last fifty years and has converted most of them to narrated DVDs for public viewing.

 

Learn more about our region's sugarbeet industry history through stories, pictures and video clips with Allan and Roger!
 
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14:
10:30 a.m. - Crookston Library 
1:30 p.m. - Twin Valley LINK Site
7:00 p.m. - Lake Park LINK Site

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 
10:30 a.m. - Breckenridge Library
1:00 p.m. - Moorhead Library 
6:00 p.m. - Halstad Living Center
Julie Kramer Julie Kramer
Mystery Writer 
Julie Kramer reinvented herself from journalist to novelist. She writes a mystery series set in the desperate world of television news - a world she knows well from her career as a freelance news producer for NBC and CBS. She also ran the WCCO I-Team in Minneapolis, where she won numerous national investigative awards. Her thrillers take readers inside how newsrooms make decisions amid chaos.

An avid reader, she tired of fictional TV reporters always being portrayed as obnoxious, secondary characters who could be killed off whenever the plot started dragging. Her series features reporter Riley Spartz as the heroine. 


Learn about Julie's creative process and visit with her about her mystery series!

Read Stalking Susan, book one in Kramer's mystery series.


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22:
7 p.m. - Fertile Library

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23:
4 p.m. - Ada Library 
7 p.m. Climax Library
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New eBooks in Digital Library Collection

Checkout these new titles in LARL's Digital Collection! 

  

Christian Fiction eBooks 

The Rose of Winslow Street by  Elizabeth CamdenThe Rose of Winslow Street by Elizabeth Camden

The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen

Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin


Kid's eBooks 
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Salina Yoon

Happy Feet Two: Mumble Saves the Day by Judy Katschke

The Big Honey Hunt by Stan and Jan Berenstain


Top Five Circulated LARL Kindle eBooks 
(January 1 through January 27, 2012) 

  

  

  

  

4.The Litigators by John Grisham

5.An Angel for Christmas by Heather Graham


Top Three Circulated LARL MP3 Audiobooks 
(January 1 through January 27, 2012)

1.  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2. Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran

3. The Emperor's Code (The 39 Clues Series) by Gordon Korman


Top Three Circulated LARL WMA Audiobooks 
(January 1 through January 27, 2012)
 
1.
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich

2.Cross Country by Alex Cross

3.13 1/2 by Nevada Barr  
 
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LARL Closed Presidents Day
   

LARL branch libraries, LINK Sites and Regional Office will be closed
Monday, February 20 in observance of Presidents Day.

  

However, we have some great titles for you to read on the holiday!  

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