8A | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 | SIUSLAW NEWS
Library Tidings
Book Review
“The Rope” by Alex
Tresniowski
In the tranquil seaside
town of Asbury Park, New
Jersey, schoolgirl Marie
Smith is brutally murdered.
Small-town officials, unable
to find the culprit, call upon
the young manager of a New
York detective agency for
help. It is the detective’s first
murder case, and the specif-
ics of the investigation and
daring sting operation that
caught the killer are captured
in all their rich detail for the
first time.
Occurring exactly halfway
between the end of the Civil
War in 1865 and the formal
beginning of the civil rights
movement in 1954, the ruth-
less murder and its highly
covered investigation sit at
the historic intersection of
sweeping national forces —
religious extremism, class
struggle, the infancy of crim-
inal forensics and racial vio-
lence of Jim Crow America.
History and true crime
collide in “The Rope,” a sen-
sational murder mystery fea-
turing characters as complex
and colorful as those found
in the best psychological
thrillers — the unconven-
tional truth-seeking detec-
tive Ray Schindler; a chilling
villain; the ambitious Asbury
Park sheriff Clarence Het-
rick; the mysterious “sting
artist” Carl Neumeister; the
indomitable crusader Ida B.
Wells; and the victim, Marie
Smith, who represented all
the innocent and vulnerable
children living in turn-of-
the-century America.
Gripping and powerful,
“The Rope” is an important
piece of history that gives
a voice to the voiceless and
resurrects a long-forgotten
true crime.
The Library in
“Extreme” Risk
The library is making a
few modifications with the
announcement that Lane
County has gone to “ex-
treme” COVID risk. Brows-
ing will continue. Even with
a conservative estimate, the
library is not exceeding the
recommended occupancy
for extreme risk. Internet
computer usage will be sus-
pended at this time.
Due to the very small in-
terior space at the Mapleton
branch, that branch library
will be reverting to curb-
side pickup, beginning to-
morrow, Thursday, May 6.
Curbside in Mapleton will
continue with the extended
hours —noon to 5 p.m., only
on Thursdays — that we’ve
had for the past month.
Hopefully this will only
last a few short weeks and
Rhody Run to take place May 15
The annual Rhody Run
5K/10K Run-Walk will be
held Saturday, May 15, at the
Florence Events Center, 715
Quince St.
For those participating,
please plan to follow all ap-
plicable COVID-19 safety
protocols. All ages are wel-
come. Registration begins at
7:30 a.m. with a start time of
9 a.m.
For those who would
like to participate but aren’t
ready for public events, like
last year there will also be
a virtual option. It doesn’t
matter if you’ve been ac-
tively training or you need
to shake the dust off your
shoes, come out and enjoy
the beautiful, paved course
with gently rolling hills.
Proceeds from this US-
ATF-sanctioned race ben-
efits Florence Habitat for
Humanity.
To register, visit www.
secure.getmeregistered.
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php?event_id=131720
or
call 541-902-9227 ext. 101.
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News about the Siuslaw Public
Library By Kevin Mittge
the library can return to our tion, and library of things
“somewhat” normal services (board game, air quality
soon.
monitor, cultural pass, and
more).
2021 Reading Challenge
Visit our website at www.
If you haven’t started the siuslawlibrary.info/read-
2021 Reading Challenge, ing-challenge for more in-
it’s never too late. This year formation and a link to the
we are trying something printable game board which
new: Around the Library in you can use to check-off
Twelve Months!
your “virtual” library vis-
You can read or enjoy it. You can also visit the li-
things in any order. You only brary’s YouTube page where
need to complete 12 catego- we are posting short videos
ries (out of 18 possible) to each month highlighting one
enter the grand prize draw- aspect of the library’s collec-
ing at the end of the year. tion. The easiest way to visit
Among the categories this our YouTube page is to go
year are: easy picture books, to www.siuslawlibrary.info,
music CDs, large print scroll down and click on the
books, cookbooks, adult fic- YouTube link.
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growing, thank you for making a
world of difference!
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