Please join us in celebrating the Library’s ’1st Birthday’ in our new location at 211 West First Street.

It has been a wonderful year in our new LEED Gold Certified Library. We couldn’t have made it this far without all of you, and we’d love to see you for this special milestone.

We will be giving library tours, playing old-fashioned birthday games, and enjoying refreshments.

Your ‘presence’ is welcome – we will have activities for all ages. Come celebrate with us!

– The Mancos Library Staff and Board of Trustees

This writing workshop, “Back to the Loin Cloth:  Hunting & Gathering the Sustenance of Story,”  is open to all – no writing experience is needed.  Hosted by Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library and Between the Covers Bookstore, the cost is $75.00 per person and you need not be a serious writer to enjoy our antics.  You can register by calling the library and asking for Scott, 970-728-4519.

Saturday, 26 June – 10am – 4pm

Sunday, 27 June – 9am – 1pm

Also, on Saturday Evening, the 26th, at 6 pm, the library will also host the two authors in a FREE “he said, she said” improvisational storytelling performance.  Who knows how this thing will go, if spears will be hurled, but you can be sure to have a few good laughs at their expense.  It is free and open to the public, and they will sign books afterwards as well.

Photo Credit: Craig Childs

The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring a book reading/signing by local author Shawna Legarza. Her memoir, titled No Grass, is a story about the dangerous world of being a “hotshot” wildland firefighter. The story is also about her time as part of the World Trade Center Recovery Efforts. Legarza will also talk about how she was able to get her book published. This event will take place Saturday, June 5th at 10:00 am at the Mancos Public Library located at 211 First St. in Mancos. For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.