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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and other
library news of interest
to the community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Something in the Blood
By David J. Skal
Book Review
“Something in the Blood: The
Untold Story of Bram Stoker,
the Man who Wrote Dracula” is
a wonderful biography of the
man who wrote a cult classic,
but whose own story is little
known.
Author David Skal exhumes
the inner world and strange
genius of the writer who birthed
an undying cultural icon, paint-
ing an astonishing portrait of the
age in which Stoker was born —
a time when death was no
metaphor but a constant threat
easily imagined as a character
existing in flesh and blood.
Born into a middle-class fam-
ily in Ireland during the famine,
Stoker’s early years unfolded
alongside a parade of Victorian
medical mysteries and horrors:
cholera and typhus, frantic
bloodletting, mesmeric quack
cures and the gnawing obsession
with “bad blood” that colors
Dracula.
In this probing psychological
and cultural portrait of the man
who brought us one of the most
memorable monsters in history,
Skal reveals a lifetime spent
wrestling with the greatest ques-
tions of an era — a time riddled
Children’s choir
to perform
Joyful Noise Children’s
Choir will present its
Christmas
production,
“Angels Alert,” on Sunday,
Dec. 4, at 6 p.m., at the
Florence Christian Church at
Second and Ivy streets.
Joyful Noise Children’s
Choir is for children of the
community, ages 4 years old
through fifth grade.
The event is free to attend.
For more information call
514-997-2291.
by disease, competing attitudes
toward sex and gender and
unprecedented scientific innova-
tion accompanied by rising para-
noia and crises of faith.
Stoker’s battle resulted in a
resilient modern folktale that
continues to shock and enthrall.
If you enjoy biographies or
knowing the background to a
well-known book or movie, you
will enjoy this book.
Black Suitcase Mystery
with author Gail Downs
Author Gail Elliott Downs
will be speaking to the Siuslaw
Genealogical Society at the
library today, Nov. 16, begin-
ning at 7 p.m., about “The
Black Suitcase Mystery.”
Step back in time to the 1940s
and delve into a World War II
mystery
involving
B-24
Liberator bombers, the men who
flew them and the women who
waited for their safe return.
Downs, from Depoe Bay,
worked as an elementary school
librarian and had inherited a
“black suitcase” full of 1930s
and ’40s letters and mementos.
A fifth-grade class took the
suitcase on as a project, search-
ing out the story of the World
War II era correspondents.
Downs has compiled the
whole story in a wonderful book
that she will discuss in this free,
public program.
Refreshments will be provid-
ed.
The Siuslaw Genealogical
Society is a library sponsored
group.
Hang-It All art display
Don’t miss this month’s Hang
It All art display, featuring a
wide variety of artistic talent
from western Lane county. Each
time you visit the library be sure
to place your vote for your
favorite work of art for the
People’s Choice Award.
Can’t decide which to vote
for? Vote for a different work
on each visit.
The library’s Art Committee
will also be selecting a work as
“Best in Show.”
Holiday Closure
The library will be closed
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
Nov. 24, as well as the following
day, Friday, Nov. 25.
Regular hours resume at 10
a.m. in Florence and at noon in
Mapleton on Saturday, Nov. 26.
Have a wonderful and safe
holiday!
City Lights dishes up ‘All
You Can Eat’ with Fanny
Florence’s first drag queen,
Jason Wood’s Fanny Rugburn,
takes the Chaplin Stage at City
Lights Cinemas this Friday at
9 p.m. for a night of shenani-
gans.
Fanny has prepared “All
You Can Eat” for this perform-
ance, including her signature
recipes, advice column, songs,
monolgues and more.
This is a one-woman show
you will not want to miss!
Wood debutted Fanny at
several events throughout the
past year, including at Three
Rivers Casino Resort, Old
Town Barbershop, Class Act
Theatre and on Fanny’s
YouTube channel.
Wood describes Fanny as
unrelenting, loud-mouthed and
the “hungriest drag queen in
the world.” City Lights will be
selling concessions in the
PHOTO BY DAVE HANSEN
Jason Wood as Fanny
Rugburn
lobby for audience members to
eat their hearts out.
All of Fanny’s shows are for
audiences 18 and older due to
her adult themed content.
Tickets
for
“Fanny
Rugburn: All You Can Eat” are
$10 and are available now at
City Lights Cinemas, 1930
Highway 101, and at city
lightscinemas.com.
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