St. Ignace Public Library

Craft Club- Wood Slice Painting
2021-07-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for Craft Club every other Wednesday at 2:00 PM during the summer months as we explore different art medium, crafts, and projects. These crafts are easy to pick-up and have a completed project in no time!
Join us July 21 for Wood Slice Painting- follow along as we walk you through painting a Desert Starry Night painting on wood slices.

LEGO Club
2021-07-22 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-09-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-09-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-09-30 15:00 - 16:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The library will provide the LEGOs, you provide the imagination.

LEGO Club is open to anyone interested, there is no need to sign up. You can work on your own creation or follow one of the building challenges provided.

If you have any LEGOs to spare, please consider donating them to the LEGO club.

Thank you to the Friends of the Library for their generous purchase of LEGOS for this club.

Chalk Art Friday
2021-07-23, 2021-07-30, 2021-08-06, 2021-08-20 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Chalk Art Fridays- Join us every Friday this Summer in creating art on our patio with chalk!

We welcome anyone and everyone to grab some chalk from the front desk and color/create to your heat’s content. The art will remain for one week (weather permitting) for the community to enjoy

Toddler Storytime
2021-07-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-08-06 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-08-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-08-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-09-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-09-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-09-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-09-24 10:30 - 11:00 and 1 more date | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for an interactive storytime and themed crafts in the Children’s Section on Friday’s at 10:30 AM.

Ages 2+, but younger siblings are welcome to join.

Friends of the Library Meeting
2021-08-03 17:15 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The Friends of the Library Board will meet on August 3, at 5:15 PM. Friends of the Library members and the public are welcome to join.

Craft Club- Origami
2021-08-04 14:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for Craft Club every other Wednesday at 2:00 PM during the summer months as we explore different art medium, crafts, and projects. These crafts are easy to pick-up and have a completed project in no time!
Join us August 11 for Origami- learn the art of paper folding.

LEGO Club
2021-08-05 08:00 - 17:00

August Library Board Meeting
2021-08-10 17:00 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The St. Ignace Library Board meeting will take place on August 10, 2021 at 5:00 PM. The public is welcome to attend and participate in the meeting during public comment.

Author Meet & Greet- Theresa L. Weller
2021-08-12 17:30 - 18:30 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join the St. Ignace Public Library and Michilimackinac Historical Society in welcoming local author and historian Theresa L. Weller, author of The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island- The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870.

Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the Agatha Biddle Band in 1870.

Theresa L. Weller has been publishes in the Michigan’s Habitant Heritage, St. Ignace News, and the Mackinac Island Town Crier. She is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Chalk Art Friday
2021-08-13

Author Event- Jean Kehoe VanDyke
2021-08-17 18:00 - 19:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join St. Ignace Public Library and Michilimackinac Historical Society in welcoming Jean Kehoe VanDyke, U.P. Native and author of Slaying the Jabberwock.

Slaying the Jabberwock is a character driven novel with thrilling twists and turns.

Author Bio
Jean Kehoe VanDyke has been writing novels filled with unforgettable, entertaining characters and exciting action since she was a child, so very long ago. Her writing, which spans a wide spectrum of human experience and emotion, is about the challenges of life, love and determination. Ironic wit and optimistic views of human interactions make her novels emotionally exciting and delightfully human. She sees her genre as contemporary family chronicles, where dynamic people walk a constantly shifting tightrope between traditional values and modern liberties.

FOTL Book Sale
2021-09-03 10:00 - 17:00, 2021-09-04 10:00 - 14:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The first book sale in over a year will take place on Friday, September 3, and Saturday, September 4, in the St. Ignace Public Library Community Room.

This book sale directly supports the Friends of the Library who in turn pay for library programs, new technology, craft supplies, books, and so much more.

Concert- Singing the Good Old Songs Again
2021-09-08 19:00 - 20:30
Join us on Wednesday, September 8 at 7:00 PM for a concert- Singing the Good Old Songs Again- with Gary Brandt and Jackie Davidson.

Singing the Good Old Songs Again is a combination of classic and original folk songs with a lot of humor and audience interaction.

September Library Board Meeting
2021-09-14 17:00 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The St. Ignace Library Board meeting will take place on September 14, 2021 at 5:00 PM. The public is welcome to attend and participate in the meeting during public comment.

Author Meet & Greet- Tom Carr
2021-09-28 17:30 - 18:30 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Author Tom Carr tells stories of murder, robbery and mayhem through the ages in the Great Lakes state. Delivered in a lively manner with irreverence and historical context, the stories include crimes of passion, greed, insanity and just plain awfulness. Since his first book, Blood on the Mitten, was released in 2016, he has told stories of true crimes and dark history at more than 100 engagements in all corners of both peninsulas. Carr is an award-winning reporter and columnist, and worked at daily newspapers in Michigan for more than 25 years and has freelanced for NPR, the New York Daily News, the Detroit Free Press and other local, regional and national news outlets.

BIO
Tom Carr is an independent writer and journalist in Northern Michigan who spent 25 years in daily newspapers, primarily the Traverse City Record-Eagle. He’s won journalistic awards for his investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and humor columns. Carr often covered police, courts and crime and reported closely on some memorable and well-known crimes.
As a freelancer, Carr has branched out into other media and has reported and produced many stories for Interlochen Public Radio and has had his work broadcast on NPR and Michigan Radio, as well. His writing and reporting has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, the New York Daily News, traverseticker.com, Traverse Magazine, and other media.
Tom Carr’s latest book, Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of Power & Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past & Present, was released in November, 2020. Carr is also author of the best-selling 2016 release, Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s-Present, and of the popular 2018 release, MI BAD: Robbers, Cutthroats and Thieves in Michigan’s Past and Present. All three titles are published by Mission Point Press.
Carr was born in Grand Rapids, grew up in Northville, graduated from Michigan State and has lived and reported in Sturgis, Sault Ste. Marie and Traverse City. He now lives near Buckley, with his wife Maria, in a farmhouse where they raised their two sons.
