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Library Message
From the Director
“LULD is Growing”
Lower Umpqua Library District
(LULD) is continuing to expand its
materials and services. The library
will soon be offering classes in which
interested patrons will be taught how
to research their genealogy (family
history). LULD has a short trial
version of Ancestry Library Edition
available (through April 18th) in
order to assess the public’s interest
in this genealogical resource.
If
enough people use it then LULD may
be able to provide access through a
regular subscription. Additionally,
the library has been acquiring books
about genealogical research and
related topics, which are available for
borrowing.
In addition to traditional library
materials such as books, magazines,
and DVDs, the library now has
trekking poles (walking sticks
designed for hiking), umbrellas,
compasses, and pedometers available
for borrowing. The funds for these
items were provided by a grant from
Oregon Health and Science University
(OHSU).
b The library is in the process
of developing a Pacific Northwest
collection, which is primarily focused
on books about or set-in the region.
This section already comprises nearly
800 titles, with additional materials
frequently being added. With grant
funds provided by the Special
District’s Association of Oregon
(SDAO), the library hired a college
student as an intern to help organize
the Pacific Northwest section.
Last year the Douglas County
Circuit Court in Roseburg donated a
microfilm reader to LULD and the
library has since acquired older issues
of the News Review and the Oregonian
on microfilm through donations from
Chemeketa Community College
and Roseburg Public Library. The
microfilm is still in the process of
being organized, but LULD anticipates
it being fully available to the public
soon.
LULD is seeking to broaden the
appeal of its collection by adding
books from a variety of genres, so that
people with many different interests
can find what they want to read. If
there is something that you would
like to borrow that the library does not
yet have in its collection, please let us
know and we may be able to add it.
Staff are very open to suggestions.
Alex Kuestner
Library Director/District Manager
Lower Umpqua Library District
395 Winchester Ave
Reedsport, Oregon 97467
(541) 271-3500
www.luld.org
North Douglas Herald
April 2024
Letters from the Librarian
“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds
of weather inside of 24 hours” - Mark Twain
Spring, sprung. If you hurry you may still
catch the cherry blossoms in front of the
library. And there’s no rush to “check out”
the ever-growing seed selection in our free
seed library. A generous donation of heirloom
seeds from the Agrarian Sharing Network has
arrived and is of course available for browsing
and “borrowing,” no library card required.
Inside of the library, the weather is always
good and books and materials are available
to match your mood. Did you know that the
library is usually able to find a book, even if
it’s not in our collection? When it’s not avail-
able at the Mildred Whipple Library, we are
happy to help search the Roseburg Public
Library catalog as well, placing holds that
are received every Wednesday. If that doesn’t
work. patrons can request titles for purchase in
our monthly book ordering process.
As you’re planning your springtime and
summertime activities, remember that books
go well with waiting for sports practices.
Books go well with travel and with longer
evenings in the garden or on the deck. Ebooks
and audiobooks, more than 60,000 of them,
are especially portable and free through the
library’s Libby app on your mobile device.
Don’t have one? Borrow one of our ereaders
and you’re suddenly able to carry 30 books at
a time.
The Mildred Whipple Library is celebrat-
ing the season with a free concert in April and
a flea market in May. Join us Sunday, April
21 at 3 p.m. for a matinee performance by
the internationally acclaimed Diane Lou Azo
and accompanists. This free afternoon event,
sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will
include refreshments, a raffle of locally cu-
rated gift baskets, and a chance to meet local
author Bob Crites. Then in May, celebrate fur-
ther by visiting our Friends of the Library flea
market to benefit the Dolly Parton Imagina-
tion Library all day on May 18. Vendors will
include housewares, handmade items, and of
course the legendary Friends of the Library
book sale.
The magical season of spring can sym-
bolize fresh starts and new growth. The library
is happy to be part of fresh starts! And we’ve
lots of activities and materials to foster and
help with new growth.
Library Schedule of Events
Tuesdays
11 am Story Time
Wednesdays
3:45 pm Teen Advisory Board
4 pm Family Movie
4 pm Yarn Club
Thursdays
11 am Silent Book Club/Bring Your Own Book
7 pm YonDr Book Club (second Thursday of
each month)
Fridays
10 am Clothes Closet
1-3 pm Kids Activity Club (first and third Fri-
days are Lego and second and fourth are games)
Saturdays
12-2 Garden Club (second Saturday of
month)
Special Events and Meetings
Friends of the Library: Tuesday, April 2 and
May 7 at 4 pm
Budget Meeting/Budget Hearing and Board
of Directors Meeting: Wednesday, April 10
and May 15 at 5:30 pm
Shadows Along the Creek
The Highest Hill
Judson Ringo has not
been dealt an easy
hand in life. After
loosing his father, and
nine months later his
mother, he is left on
his own at seventeen in
rural 1890s Kentucky. He goes to Tennessee to live with
his uncle, but instead of being treated like family, he is
a slave. Judson faces each challenge as it comes, think-
ing only to survive. After four years in bondage, John
Harrington dies and Judson is set free. He returns to his
father’s farm on a cold winter night, finds it in ruins,
is suspected of murder, and begins life all over, finding
strength in the midst of struggle and love in remnants
of buried dreams. Martha Jane gets her buggy stuck in
the mud on a cold winter night. She tries everything, but
cannot get the buggy back on the road. She is all but
ready to leave the buggy, when a horse and rider ap-
proaches. The hopes and dreams Martha Jane believed
long dead come to life once more.
This is the story of two
young brothers, Bobby
and Jackie Ringo, who
struggle to overcome the
hardships of an unpropi-
tious home environment
in rural western Ken-
tucky in the 1940s and
1950s. Their lives and fu-
tures are fraught with pitfalls and roadblocks, both de-
bilitating and deadly. The reader will feel the dreams,
aspirations and wonder of the youngest whilst living
and growing up in very different time than our own.
The boys, left on their own much of the time cope with
a drinking and abusive father, barely escape being sent
to reform school, struggle to stay in school, graduate
and overcome their circumstance and to reach higher
and higher to achieve a better life as kids and for their
futures. Follow Bobby and Jackie through the early
1950s, starting at ages’ nine and twelve, through their
high school years to a dramatic climax of personal and
physical struggle with the “Ringo Streak” and its re-
percussions. If they survive, it’ll be to eventually real-
ize the true lessons of the Highest Hill which continues
to reveal its real measure and meaning.
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Roseburg Library Wine Presentation
Local History & Info - April 11
Roseburg Public Library invites the public to
a presentation on wine making, viticulture and
the history of wine in the Umpqua Valley at 6:30
p.m. Thursday, April 11.
Presenter Joel Goodwillie, winery manager
at Umpqua Community College’s Southern Or-
egon Wine Institute, has 30 years of experience
building successful winery and hard cidery
businesses. He co-authored the federal Co-
lumbia Gorge American Viticultural Area ap-
plication and co-founded the Columbia Gorge
Winegrowers Association. Goodwillie also is
knowledgeable in business, sales, marketing,
customer relations, and strategic planning and
implementation.
The Southern Oregon Wine Institute’s mis-
sion is to serve the wineries of Southern Oregon
as a resource for skilled winery workers.
The program, which will be held at the library
located at 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd., is free
and open to the public. For more information,
contact Roseburg Public Library staff at 541-
Classical Concert: Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm
Library Closed: Tuesday April 23-Saturday
April 27
Flea Market: Saturday, May 18 8 am-3 pm
Miriam Sisson, Director
Mildred Whipple Library
North Douglas Library District
ndld.org 541-836-2648
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Johnny Ringo’s
brother was dead.
“I’ll get ‘em
Frank, I swear
to you I’ll get
them”. What a
place to die, there
on the frozen banks of the Rough Creek.
The Law wasn’t doing anything about
it and Johnny had decided he would.
It was 1938 and the county was full of
Bootleggers. One of them ‘Shiners” did
it. Johnny was gonna find out who and
he knew how to do it. Trouble is there are
a lot of prime suspects and a good deal
of danger from any one of them. Johnny
has a plan, if he can keep out of sight of
the Sheriff long enough and keep from
getting killed himself. He knows the
woods and hills and he will find out what
he needs to know.
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