November at the Arts Center

It’s November - let us be thankful. Aside from the fact that elections will be over and all those awful attack ads will no longer be airing, I’m thankful for the Fosston Community Library Arts Center and all that goes on there.

On Friday, Nov. 16, at 6:30 p.m., author Michael Frickstad will be at the library to sign copies of his newly-published novel, The Storyteller. Frickstad taught English at Fosston High School from 1974 to 1998. During that time, he also coached speech, as well as directing and acting in plays, both at the school and the art center. Following that time, he taught at St. Michael-Albertville High School, retiring in 2009. The Storyteller tells the story of Beecher Jones, a husband, father, high school principal and unwilling messiah. According to Frickstad, "The book started as a love story and turned into a spiritual horror story." It is available from Amazon in both hardcover and Kindle versions.

Wednesday, Nov. 14, is Family Portrait Day at the library. Bring your family to the library and have your picture taken together while enjoying a good book.

Books & Bonbons Book Club meets Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. This month’s selection, In the Lake of the Woods by Minnesota author Tim O’Brien, doesn’t seem to be anyone’s favorite, but Tammi is promising a good dessert.

Here’s another reason to be thankful: the used book sale held during October brought in about $900 - money used to help provide library programs. Thanks to everyone who donated and to everyone who shopped.

Prints by East Grand Forks artist Jeanne Griffin O’Neil are currently on display in the Sorenson Gallery. According to O’Neil, "The images I make are definitions of time and place; as in the changes of light behind bare trees, also the patterns made by prairie grasses and by windrows against the sky… it was not until we moved here to the Red River Valley, where it is so flat, that I began to see the farm houses and barns, sheds, grain bins, rows of evergreens and cottonwoods sitting on the flat line of the horizon as words, as lines of text."

Apparently the end is in sight for the theater remodeling project. A grand re-opening event is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 2, with tours, an artist reception and refreshments. Watch for more details.

The library will be closed in Monday, Nov. 12, in observance of Veterans Day and also on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22.