Just a Few Trees, by Stanton Englehart
Date: October 23
Place: Mancos Public Library, 211 West First Street
Time: TBA
And don’t forget the Englehart exhibit that is still up at the Anasazi Heritage Center through the end of October!
The Mancos Library District is now accepting applications for appointment to the Board of Trustees.
We’re looking for talented and conscientious volunteers who have:
- time to prepare for and attend meetings
- communication skills and open-mindedness
- ability to plan for the library’s future
- represent the community to the library
- represent the library to the community
- live within the Mancos Library District boundaries
If you can contribute your time, thoughtfulness, and leadership, please fill out an application and return it to the library by September 21, 2009.
Faire: An American Renaissance will be shown this Wednesday at the Library.
This film, produced by Doug Jacobson, talks about the history of American Renaissance Faires, and many other fascinating facets of Ren Faires.
Faire: An American Renaissance was an official selection of the Oakland International Film Festival, British Film Festival and Burbank Film Festival.
MPL’s showing of this film will be on Wednesday, August 18, at 7pm in the meeting room. It runs about an hour and a half and is really an informative, quite interesting and very well done! Free, and open to all.
Mancos Renaissance Faire – 22 August 2010 – Sunday Schedule
10:00 Faire Opens
Gypsy Moon (Carla and Paul Roberts)
10:30 “Comedie LeMuc” (The Mud People), at the Mud Pit
11:00 Morning Processional
Heavy Weapons SCA Camp
Youth Music (Jasper Graves) in food court tent
11:30 Ruth Francesco Wilson
12:00 Page School (SCA Camp)
Hula and Polynesian Dance (Angie Bliss)
12:30 “Comedie LeMuc” (The Mud People), at the Mud Pit
1:00 Light Weapons SCA Camp
Troupe Verde Bellydancers
2:00 Fight-a-Knight (to 3:30) SCA Camp
Merry Madrigals Food Court
Costume Judging (Mainstage)
2:30 Vivace Mandolin Quartet
“Comedie LeMuc” (The Mud People), at the Mud Pit
3:00 Carute Roma
Tentative West Wind Pipers
4:00 Royal Court (Mainstage)
Mancos Renaissance Faire – 21 August 2010 – Saturday Schedule
10:00 Faire Opens – Morning Processional
Dulcimer Maid (Main Stage)
Weapons Check (SCA Camp)
10:30 Jill Shuken
“Comedie LeMuc” (Mud People), at the Mud Pit
11:00 1st Heavy Tourney (SCA Court)
Ruth Francesco Wilson (vocals – Main stage)
12:00 Quandrant Class (2 hours) 5th grade and up (SCA Camp)
Page School (SCA Camp)
Light Weapons Check (SCA Camp)
Hula and Polynesian Dance Group (Angie Bliss)
12:30 “Comedie LeMuc” (Mud People), at the Mud Pit
1:00 Light Tourney (SCA Camp)
Troupe Verde Bellydancing
2:00 Merry Madrigal Singers (Food Court Tent)
2:30 Fite a Knight (to 4 pm) (SCA Camp)
Youth Music (Jasper Graves), Food Court Tent
“Comedie LeMuc” (Mud People), at the Mud Pit
Costume Judging (Mainstage)
3:00 Vivace mandolin Ensemble in Food Court Tent
Tentative West Wind Pipers on Main Stage
4:00 Page School
Dulcimer Maid (Main Stage)
4:30 “Comedie LeMuc” (Mud People), at the Mud Pit
5:00 Court
6:00 Heavy Weapons Tourney (SCA Camp)
7:00 Gypsy Moon Ensemble (to 8), with Paul and Carla Roberts
8:30 Asa Firetribe Fire Dancing with Local Drumming Group Mancos Rhythm Posse
Attend the Teen Bash for a chance to win an iPod Nano!!
The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring a reading and booksigning by Pleasant View writer Lowell Volk of his book
entitled The Taylors’ Civil War. This moving, action-filled story of the Taylor family, farmers in Virginia at the time of the Civil War, portrays the family’s struggle and hardship during this time when they too suffer loss of life and property. Once the Civil War is over, the conflict continues as they deal with thievery in the form of the carpetbaggers, who prey on the South at war’s end.
Date: Saturday, August 7th
Time: 10:00am
Place: Main Meeting Room, Mancos Public Library
There will be copies of the book for sale and signature. For an electronic copy of the book, please purchase from the publisher, Dorrance Publishing Co.
About the Author
Lowell F. Volk is a native of Minnesota, currently retired and living in Pleasant View, Colorado, where he is a member of the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Posse. Lowell and his wife, Mary Lou, have five children: Terri, Scott, Paula, Lowell Jr., and Kathy.
Lowell has an MBA from the University of La Verne and enjoys horseback riding, deer and elk hunting, and early American history.
In this latest installment of our Brown Bag Tech Series, MPL presents ‘Video Marketing 101′. In this FREE workshop, attendees will learn the basics of creating a short video for placement on YouTube or Vimeo, and how to use your video to market your business.
Date: Wednesday, August 4
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Place: Library, Main Meeting Room
Dave McDarby of Gold Rush Graphix will explain the basics of video making – everything from script writing to sound to lighting. Victoria Petersen of the Mancos Public Library will be going over effective video marketing strategies: the social aspects of video placement, and marketing your video on your website.
All are welcome – non-profits and for-profits businesses alike.
Mancos Public Library will host a lecture/slideshow & booksigning by Bill & Beth Sagstetter in celebration of their recently published book about the ancient peoples of SW Colorado entitled ‘The Cliff Dwelling Speak’. It is free & everyone is welcome. There will also be copies of the book for sale!
The Cliff Dwellings Speak
Date: Thursday, July, 15th
Time: 7pm
Place: MPL, Main Meeting Room, 211 West First Street
About the Book:
“For years we struggled to get to remote cliff dwellings – from the Four Corners Region to the Sierra Madres in Mexico – only to be disappointed when we arrived. To our non-professional eyes there appeared to be very little left. The cliff dwellings were mute for us.
We were frustrated – we sensed each one of them had a story to tell, but we could not decipher it. What could cliff dwellings possibly tell casual visitors like us?
And then one day doing library research we stumbled across papers of the early archaeologists from the turn of the twentieth century — before there was much science to apply to the study of archaeology. The observation techniques they developed were perfect for casual visitors like us — now we could fathom at least some of the mysteries of the ancient ruins. For example, what it means when we encounter walls that are heavily smoke-blackened. Or, how to train our eyes to see the wooden pegs imbedded in the walls and what that might mean. Suddenly the ancient cliff ruins did not seem so inscrutable anymore. We were spellbound!
This book will guide you around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion, giving you very real tools for understanding cliff dwellings. Beginning with preservation – that is, the proper way to visit them without inadvertently inflicting damage. It asks the question why they might have built these spectacular ruins. Carefully interwoven with the archaeology is the ethnography of the modern Pueblo people– the descendants of the cliff dwellers.”
Bill and Beth Sagstetter
About the Authors: Bill and Beth Sagstetter are a photographer/writer team living in Denver. They have been researching, writing, photographing and filming western and southwestern U.S. subjects for forty years.
Their byline appears on hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, a dozen films and three best-selling books. One of their films won an award at the 1978 Aspen Arts Film Festival.
Their newest book, The Cliff Dwellings Speak is the culmination of a lifetime of exploration and research of the cliff dwellings from Southwestern Colorado to Northern Mexico.
Join us for the next Brown Bag Tech – ‘Social Media Strategies for your Non-Profit’. MPL’s partner, Buzztown, brings back Steve Linn for a rousing presentation on how your business marketing can be ramped-up using various social media sites.
New Day and Time!
Date: Wednesday, July 7
Time: 10am – 12pm
Place: Mancos Public Library, Main Meeting Room
Social Media can help your organization engage more constituents, raise more money, or bring
your mission to new audiences. Don’t know where to start? Come to this session and learn the basics about major social media tools available to nonprofit organizations, and how to decide if your organization should use them, how to get started, and how to measure the return on investment. The session will include visits to social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, and others), plus a look at how other nonprofits have successfully used social media tools.
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