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North Douglas Herald
May 2024
Ongoing Projects and Services Yoncalla Public Library
Lower Umpqua Library District (LULD)
Library Notes
United States Library of Congress
By MaryEllen Lasswell
The library now has over 100 active
magazine/periodical subscriptions available
about a variety of topics, such as news (both
foreign and domestic), genealogy, outdoor
recreation, Oregon/local interest, travel,
science, history, boating, comics, business,
literature, and many more. While books are
restricted to 25 checkouts at a time per person,
magazine borrowing is unlimited. These
subscriptions were either funded by grants or
donated (by individual patrons or by groups
such as the Friends of the Library and the
Lower Umpqua Gem & Lapidary Society).
The library recently used grant funds to
purchase bicycle locks, which are available
for borrowing. These join other nontraditional
objects that LULD has available for borrowing,
which include trekking poles, compasses,
umbrellas, pedometers, Wi-Fi hotspots, solar
chargers, a keyboard, computer mice, a Blu-ray
drive, and Wi-Fi extenders. In addition to these
items that are available for checkout, USB flash
drives may be purchased for $3.00 apiece.
LULD has upcoming events throughout the
months of May and June. These include:
• Pre-school Storytime will be held at LULD
every Wednesday at 11 am
• Knit and Crochet Group will meet at LULD
every Wednesday at 4 pm
• A presentation by Kameryn Brown at LULD
regarding foraging and growing mushrooms at
10 am on May 18 th . Please bring your own food
safe containers
• A presentation by Carolena Pierce at LULD
about vermiculture composting with worms at
10 am on May 25 th
• A planetarium experience at the Reedsport
Community Center (451 Winchester Ave), which
will be held in cooperation between LULD,
Southwestern Community College and the
Reedsport Community Center. It will be held on
June 01 st from 9 am until 12 pm.
• LULD’s Summer Reading Program will
begin on June 15 th and continue until August
21 st . Children and teenagers are invited to read
during the summer for the chance to win prizes.
A similar program for adults is also in the works
and more details will be announced in next
month’s article.
• A presentation by Cindy Farber at LULD on
dealing with garden predators and disease and
summertime succession planting at 10 am on
June 15 th
• The kick-off party and parking lot barbecue
for the Summer Reading Program will be held at
LULD on June 19 th .
LULD received a grant to pay a teen intern
to work at the library over the summer. The
intern would focus on a project, which would
be determined based on the needs and interests
of both the library and the intern. Applicants
for both this and for a substitute library assistant
position are encouraged to apply by submitting
applications to the library. Additional volunteers
would also be most welcome. Many ongoing
projects could use the help of volunteers.
Please call or visit the library for more
information or if you have questions. LULD
is open 10 am to 6 pm Tuesday through Friday
and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday.
Alex Kuestner, Library Director/
District Manager
Lower Umpqua Library District
395 Winchester Ave,
Reedsport, Oregon 97467
(541) 271-3500
www.luld.org
Spring is here and the Yoncalla
Public Library would like to invite
everyone to our upcoming Annual Book,
Bake, and Bouquet Sale. This event will
be held on May 11 th from 10am to 2pm
and all proceeds will go to the library.
Our monthly programs include
Coffee Club, which is every second
Saturday of the month from 10-12. This
is a space to drop-in for a cup of coffee,
get help with any technology needs, or
just meet up for conversation. We also
have STEAM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, Math) learning activities
for children and teens every second
Thursday of the month from 4-7pm.
Follow us on Facebook for more
information and to see what we’re up to
every week. Our hours are M 1-5, W 10-
4, Th 4-7, and Sat 10-2. See you at the
library!
Library of Congress, the de fac-
to national library of the United States
and the largest library in the world.
Its collection was growing at a rate
of about two million items per year; it
reached more than 170 million items
in 2020. The Library of Congress
serves members, committees, and staff
of the U.S. Congress, other govern-
ment agencies, libraries throughout
the country and the world, and the
scholars, researchers, artists, and sci-
entists who use its resources. It is the
national centre for library service to
the blind and physically handicapped,
and it offers many concerts, lectures,
and exhibitions for the general public.
Those outside the Washington, D.C.,
area have access to the library’s grow-
ing electronic resources through the
Library of Congress website at http:
//www.loc.gov.
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, thinking only to survive. Af-
ter four years in bondage, John Harrington dies and Jud-
son 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 approaches.
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 repercussions. If
they survive, it’ll be to eventually
realize the true lessons of the High-
est Hill which continues to reveal its
real measure and meaning.
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The library was founded on April
24, 1800, when U.S. Pres. John Adams
approved the $5,000 appropriated by
Congress when the U.S. capital moved
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
Washington, D.C. It was housed within
the new Capitol building, where it re-
mained for nearly a century. However,
on August 24, 1814, during the War of
1812, the library’s original collection
of 3,000 volumes was destroyed when
the British burned the Capitol as well
as the White House. To rebuild the li-
brary’s collection, Congress, on Janu-
ary 30, 1815, approved the purchase of
former president Thomas Jefferson’s
personal library of 6,487 books for
$23,950. On Christmas Eve 1851, an-
other fire destroyed two-thirds of the
collection. Many of the volumes have
since been replaced.
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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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