Programs @ Lanier

If you want to be one of ten to explore hands-on the imaginative possibilities of

alcohol ink artistry, reserve your seat now. Other than a willingness to exercise

your creativity, no experience is necessary and the paper and

tools you need will be provided.

Vicki Van Vynct, your workshop teacher, has been painting for almost 40 years

and teaches painting at Isothermal Community College, Tryon Painters and

Sculptors, and at her home studio in Tryon. Her skyscapes, landscapes,

dreamscapes, metaphysical paintings, and abstracts have been shown in over

80 exhibitions, many of them solo, and hang in private collections

across the United States.

Membership @ Lanier

Is your membership about to expire? No need to come in to the library, just visit the library website by clicking on:

https://thelanierlibrary.org/membership/online-membership-form/ and renew online.

If you aren’t sure when your membership expires,

please contact the library at 828-859-9535.

Back in the 80’s, Tom and I lived in Salt Lake City. It was a great hub for exploring iconic destinations out West, including Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While we were there, a dear friend was head of the Teton Science School- and we visited several times. Once to take a class in animal scat identification - (and I have the T-shirt to prove it)!  Another memorable visit was over Thanksgiving. The residential school was closed for the holiday and so we had the place to ourselves.  The school is

located down a long gravel driveway out in the boonies (or at least it was the boonies back then).  Since there was so much snow, we brought the groceries in by hauling them on a sled by snowshoe-clad foot.

Thanksgiving day morning we awoke to the clanking of moose antlers right outside our window! Two bull moose were sparring ten feet from the cabin. Once the moose cleared out, we spent the day cross- country skiing and then cooking. There are photos of all of us at the end of the meal balancing spoons on our noses. Hmm. I guess you had to be there! Our friend and host that Thanksgiving was former school head and current author, Greg Zeigler. Since his retirement, he has written three eco-thriller novels set out West - and the library has copies of them all for your reading pleasure. I hope your

Thanksgiving holiday is filled with the joy of spending time with friends and family, and watch out for those spoons!

Until next time, Vicky

holiday.

On November 6, repair work will begin on the retaining wall between the library’s parking lot and the former Bank of America building parking lot. The contractors estimate the work will take five days. During that time, it is possible that access to the parking lot will be limited. We appreciate your patience and look forward to reopening

the entire parking lot soon.

Do Tell  Lindsay Lynch

A Man  Keiichiro Hirano

The Indigo Girl Natasha Boyd

The Canary Girls Jennifer Chiaverini

The Bookbinder  Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams

The Lost Apothecary Sarah Penner

Everybody's Fool Richard Russo

Somebody’s Fool Richard Russo

The Nature of Fragile Things Susan Meissner

Pictures at an Exhibition Sara Houghteling.

The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey Serena Burdick

A Woman is No Man  Etaf Rum

Attachments Jeff Arch

The Other Eden Paul Harding

Decent People Shawn Charles Winslow

Banyan Moon Thao Thai

Night Travelers Armando Lucas Correa

The Bandit Queens Parini Shroff

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre

The Detective Up Late  Adrian McGinty

A Vineyard Killing Philip R. Craig

All the Sinners Bleed  S.A. Cosby

Hell and Back Craig Johnson

Elon Musk Walter Isaacson

Unearthing Kyo Maclear

Fearless: Harriet Quimby  Don Dahler

The Art Thief Michael Finkel

Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer

Just Because Mathew McConaughey

WWI Book Review Sampler

I was recently talking with one of our members, David Maxwell, and he told me he had just re-read for the third time The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. In David's words this is "a superb book about the run up to the war. WWI was the most brutal of the world wars, and a sad commentary on Germany-particularly the Kaiser..." He highly recommends this title (filed at 940.3 T). 

David then requested further titles, both fiction and nonfiction, to continue exploring the topic of WWI. Additional titles found in Lanier's nonfiction stacks are The First World War by renowned historian John Keegan (940.3 K) and The Remains of Company D by James C. Nelson (940.4 N). One critic wrote of Keegan's book: By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation extended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history.

Regarding the James C. Nelson title, a critic wrote: Not since Flags of Our Fathers —no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory —no, make that, Not ever— has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence, the truthfulness and the muted heartbreak of James Carl Nelson in The Remains of Company D.

Because David also enjoys a good novel, I passed along Lee Cudlip's suggestion of three great novels set during WWI: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin and The Winter Soldier by David Mason. All the titles mentioned are available at Lanier and ready to be enjoyed by our history buffs.

Member, Bill McCall

dressed the part.