FOOTNOTES This newsletter is published three times a year in April, August, and November by the
Friends of the Flat River Community Library. Summer–Autumn Edition, August 2016
Friends Sponsored Events, 2016
August 18 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and
Silent Auction, 6 to 8 p.m.
19 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and
Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
20 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and
Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
September 1 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.
October National Friends of the Library Month!
6 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.
25 Plain Jane Glory, 6 p.m.
November 3 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.
11 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and
Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
12 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and
Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
17 When Hollywood Went to War,
6:30 p.m.
Most events are held in the library’s Stafford
Room. Dates and times are subject to change
without notice.
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The newsletter of the Friends of
the Flat River Community
Library, Summer–Autumn
Edition, August 2016.
Editor and Photographer Pat Lobenstein,
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FLAT RIVER
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Eric Hemenway (continued from front page)
Inside this issue:
• Loreen Niewenhuis: Lovely Lake
Michigan
• Eric Hemenway: History of the Northern
Michigan Odawa Tribe
• Summer Reading Program Photos
• What Friends are Reading Now
• Friends Book Store Doorway
• Welcome New Friends Members!
• Friends Sponsored Events
Eric Hemenway: History of the
Northern Michigan Odawa Tribe
Loreen Niewenhuis: Lovely Lake
Michigan
At age six, Loreen raced her siblings up and down the sand dunes at Warren Dunes State Park. Runs down the dunes culminated in a swim in Lake Michigan. At age 45, she had a personal desire to make a meaningful mark in her own life. It’s not as if she hadn’t already. Niewenhuis is married, a mother of two sons, she graduated with a BA, MS and an MFA. She has been a cancer researcher and writer and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor award for her short story collection, Scar Tissue. Yet, there was something unfulfilled in her.
In 2008, she announced to her family that she would walk the perimeter of Lake Michigan and began training and studying for the walk, mapping out the journey which would take her through four seasons—“A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach.” She always felt connected to the lake.
Her 64-day trek was divided into 10 segments, walking an average of 16 miles each day, and a total of 1,019 miles. She walked alone 80 percent of the time and went through three pairs of boots. But, along the way, she met many good people who urged her on, some interviewing her, and some walking with her for a time. She observed the disrepair of cities filled with grime and soot against the beauty of the lake she loves. She observed the geology that surrounds the lake and the migratory route of the Monarch butterfly. Chicago, a city where an unobstructed lakefront is the law and a place she enjoys, was her starting and ending point.
Niewenhuis has written and published three books about her Great Lakes adventures and you can learn more about her and her adventures online at LakeTrek.com.
A Friends sponsored event.
under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
The Odawa (a.k.a., Ottawa), Ojibway/Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes form the Anishnaabek—the good people. Known as good traders, in the 1700s, the Odawa traveled thousands of miles in birch bark canoes trading furs for goods brought over by the French and other Europeans—cast iron pots, guns and copper kettles, also called burial kettles. Additionally, the Odawa were good fishermen, hunters, farmers of corn and harvesters of maple sugar, and were renowned craftsmen.
The Odawa were people of influence who helped to shape the course of international and American history. Not only did they fight to remain in Michigan but they fought in wars against the Winnebago, Iroquois, Sauk and Fox, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes and against Americans and Europeans. The Odawa fought in the Fox Wars–1712-1740, French and Indian Wars–1756-1761, Pontiac’s War–1763, the Revolutionary War–1776, and the War of 1812. They fought to retain their lands, their way of life, and access to natural resources.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson announced the Indian Removal Policy, which stated that all Indians east of the Mississippi must move west of the Mississippi. The Odawa requested a treaty with the U.S. Government. In 1836 an agreement was struck to cede 13 million acres of land to the U.S. for 14 small reservations and the option of the U.S. to remove the tribes after five years. In 1855, the Treaty of Detroit allowed the Odawa to remain in Michigan.
(Eric Hemenway—continued on back page)
Above: Librarian Tim West introduces Loreen Niewenhuis.
At Left: Eric Hemenway
Eric Hemenway is an Anishnaabe/Odawa from Cross Village, Michigan. He is a Tribal Repatriation Specialist for the Cultural Preservation Department for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Northern Michigan. There, he works to retrieve human remains and sacred objects
As the Civil War went on, the largest all-Indian regiment east of the Mississippi was from Michigan and joined the Union Army—Company K, of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters. They joined in 1863.
In the 20th century, the Odawa continued to fight for return of their lands but also of their rights. By 1980, the Odawa filed for reaffirmation asserting that they were a federally recognized Indian tribe with rights to land and fishing.
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced S. 1357, in August 1993, which reaffirms and extends Federal recognition and associated benefits to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Tribes) of Michigan, and further provides for the transfer of specified land for the benefit of the Bands.
The bill passed both the U.S. Senate and House and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. On September 21, 1994; it became Public Law No: 103-324.
A Friends sponsored event.
At Left:
Linda Mollo,
Friends Vice
President, and
speaker Eric
Hemenway talk
after his
presentation about
the Northern
Michigan Odawa
Tribe.
FRIENDS Membership FORM
The Friends support the library in many different ways. Our activities include but are not limited to sponsoring the Summer Reading Program, volunteering for library and Friends events, holiday decorating of the library, sending books to military personnel, delivering “Books for Babies”, an informational package, to new mothers at the United Memorial Health Center, but that’s not all that we do. We need many volunteers to work on these and other existing projects. Please consider renewing or joining the Friends. Thank you!
Individual Member $5.00 Family $10.00 Contributing Member $_______ Name: ________________________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________
City, State, Zip code ____________________________________________
Phone and E-mail _______________________________________________
What are your interests? _________________________________________
The membership year is January 1 through December 31, 2016. Please make your check payable to Friends of the Flat River Community Library and mail it to or drop it off at the FRCL, 200 W.
Judd St., Greenville, MI 48838. Thank you, we appreciate your support! *Checks/cash may be dropped off at the Library Circulation Desk with this completed form.
(Aug16)
Friends Book Store Doorway to Be Transformed
In the coming days and weeks, Susan Moss
will transform our book store doorway. Sorry,
you cannot have a peek at the design that she
will paint, but you know her work.
Sue was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois,
she moved to Michigan with her husband, in
1993. She is graduated from Illinois University
DeKalb, with a BA in art. And on August 22,
2014, she received the “Public Vote Prize,” at
the Art @ the Green event with her painting
“Stone Bridge at Baldwin Lake.”
Friends is thrilled to employ a local artist of
this caliber to highlight the doorway to its
book store—a doorway to knowledge and
education, mixed with a bit of fun! Watch that
space. It’s Friends sponsored.
Summer Reading Program Photographs What Friends Are Reading Now…
Memoir The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
Nonfiction A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach, by Loreen
Niewenhuis
Fiction First Comes Love, by Emily Griffin
Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
In Twenty Years, by Allison Winn Scotch
The Dog Master: A novel of the first dog, by
W. Bruce Cameron
The Girl in the Red Coat, by Kate Hamer
The Traitor’s Wife, by Allison Pataki
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony
Doerr
Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, by
Jacqueline Winspear
The Amber Room, by Steve Berry
The Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke
The Neon Rainbow, by James Lee Burke
Without Remorse, by Tom Clancy
The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly
Kill Shot, by Vince Flynn
Murder 101, by Faye Kellerman
Blowback, by Brad Thor
Hot Mahogany, by Stuart Woods
Unnatural Acts, by Stuart Woods
The Traitor, by Stephen Coonts
Cold Betrayal, by J.A. Jance
Milk and Honey, by Faye Kellerman
Everywhere That Mary Went, by Lisa
Scottoline
Indelible, by Karin Slaughter
A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler
Change in Friends Meeting Calendar
For many years, Friends meetings
have been held on the first Thursday
of the month, January to November. In
a discussion at the July meeting, it was
agreed and approved that Friends will
continue to meet on the first Thursday
of the month, but February to
December. The reason for the change
to include December and oust January
has to do with weather—precisely,
snow and ice. It has been observed that
we receive more bad weather in
January than December, which causes
fewer people to attend the January
meetings, thus the change.
Tids ‘n’ Bits • Donations of unfrosted cookies and
single-serve breads for the August 18–20
cookie sale during Danish Festival are
requested. Please bring your baked goods to
the library Circulation Desk and accept our
thanks for your yummy donations!
• Don’t forget about the “Lucky Day”
bookshelf and the TEMPO (Contemporary)
titles of popular and newly published books
for and about people who are 20- to 30-
years old. There is a three-week checkout.
TEMPO titles may be put on hold and
renewed! • Genealogy questions? Please see
Librarian Kelly Worden. Appointments are
available for consultations. • Zinio is the digital magazine subscription
that’s FREE of charge at the library. Check
it out online in the library or from your
home—and don’t pay another magazine
subscription fee! Read every issue of the
magazines you love: Cook’s Country,
Fitness, Golf Digest, Lucky, Kiplinger’s,
Self, and many, many more!
• Ancestry.com library edition is available
online, in the library. See the Research
Librarian for details.
Welcome New Friends Members! A big welcome and thank you for joining
the Friends goes to new members Joycelyn
Sharp and Jill Dibble, both of Greenville.
Notes from the day…The parking lot was brimming. Shouts of glee could be heard a block away. Registration lines were long but everyone kept their cool. A young golfer remarked how much the game of golf was like baseball—fore! The bounce house shook. Young girls proudly wore their face paint. People reacquainted them-selves with the bookshelves. All’s right with the world!
It’s Book Sale Time!
Please join us for our biggest book
sale of the year—during Danish
Festival. Details on the back page!