FOOTNOTES This newsletter is published three times a year in April, August, and November by the

Friends of the Flat River Community Library. Summer–Autumn Edition, August 2016

Friends Sponsored Events, 2016

August 18 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and

Silent Auction, 6 to 8 p.m.

19 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and

Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

20 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and

Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

September 1 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.

October National Friends of the Library Month!

6 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.

25 Plain Jane Glory, 6 p.m.

November 3 Friends Monthly Meeting, 7 p.m.

11 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and

Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

12 Friends Used Book & Cookie Sale and

Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

17 When Hollywood Went to War,

6:30 p.m.

Most events are held in the library’s Stafford

Room. Dates and times are subject to change

without notice.

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FOOTNOTES

The newsletter of the Friends of

the Flat River Community

Library, Summer–Autumn

Edition, August 2016.

Editor and Photographer Pat Lobenstein,

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FLAT RIVER

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

Eric Hemenway (continued from front page)

Inside this issue:

• Loreen Niewenhuis: Lovely Lake

Michigan

• Eric Hemenway: History of the Northern

Michigan Odawa Tribe

• Summer Reading Program Photos

• What Friends are Reading Now

• Friends Book Store Doorway

• Welcome New Friends Members!

• Friends Sponsored Events

Eric Hemenway: History of the

Northern Michigan Odawa Tribe

Loreen Niewenhuis: Lovely Lake

Michigan

At age six, Loreen raced her siblings up and down the sand dunes at Warren Dunes State Park. Runs down the dunes culminated in a swim in Lake Michigan. At age 45, she had a personal desire to make a meaningful mark in her own life. It’s not as if she hadn’t already. Niewenhuis is married, a mother of two sons, she graduated with a BA, MS and an MFA. She has been a cancer researcher and writer and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor award for her short story collection, Scar Tissue. Yet, there was something unfulfilled in her.

In 2008, she announced to her family that she would walk the perimeter of Lake Michigan and began training and studying for the walk, mapping out the journey which would take her through four seasons—“A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach.” She always felt connected to the lake.

Her 64-day trek was divided into 10 segments, walking an average of 16 miles each day, and a total of 1,019 miles. She walked alone 80 percent of the time and went through three pairs of boots. But, along the way, she met many good people who urged her on, some interviewing her, and some walking with her for a time. She observed the disrepair of cities filled with grime and soot against the beauty of the lake she loves. She observed the geology that surrounds the lake and the migratory route of the Monarch butterfly. Chicago, a city where an unobstructed lakefront is the law and a place she enjoys, was her starting and ending point.

Niewenhuis has written and published three books about her Great Lakes adventures and you can learn more about her and her adventures online at LakeTrek.com.

A Friends sponsored event.

under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

The Odawa (a.k.a., Ottawa), Ojibway/Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes form the Anishnaabek—the good people. Known as good traders, in the 1700s, the Odawa traveled thousands of miles in birch bark canoes trading furs for goods brought over by the French and other Europeans—cast iron pots, guns and copper kettles, also called burial kettles. Additionally, the Odawa were good fishermen, hunters, farmers of corn and harvesters of maple sugar, and were renowned craftsmen.

The Odawa were people of influence who helped to shape the course of international and American history. Not only did they fight to remain in Michigan but they fought in wars against the Winnebago, Iroquois, Sauk and Fox, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes and against Americans and Europeans. The Odawa fought in the Fox Wars–1712-1740, French and Indian Wars–1756-1761, Pontiac’s War–1763, the Revolutionary War–1776, and the War of 1812. They fought to retain their lands, their way of life, and access to natural resources.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson announced the Indian Removal Policy, which stated that all Indians east of the Mississippi must move west of the Mississippi. The Odawa requested a treaty with the U.S. Government. In 1836 an agreement was struck to cede 13 million acres of land to the U.S. for 14 small reservations and the option of the U.S. to remove the tribes after five years. In 1855, the Treaty of Detroit allowed the Odawa to remain in Michigan.

(Eric Hemenway—continued on back page)

Above: Librarian Tim West introduces Loreen Niewenhuis.

At Left: Eric Hemenway

Eric Hemenway is an Anishnaabe/Odawa from Cross Village, Michigan. He is a Tribal Repatriation Specialist for the Cultural Preservation Department for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Northern Michigan. There, he works to retrieve human remains and sacred objects

As the Civil War went on, the largest all-Indian regiment east of the Mississippi was from Michigan and joined the Union Army—Company K, of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters. They joined in 1863.

In the 20th century, the Odawa continued to fight for return of their lands but also of their rights. By 1980, the Odawa filed for reaffirmation asserting that they were a federally recognized Indian tribe with rights to land and fishing.

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced S. 1357, in August 1993, which reaffirms and extends Federal recognition and associated benefits to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Tribes) of Michigan, and further provides for the transfer of specified land for the benefit of the Bands.

The bill passed both the U.S. Senate and House and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. On September 21, 1994; it became Public Law No: 103-324.

A Friends sponsored event.

At Left:

Linda Mollo,

Friends Vice

President, and

speaker Eric

Hemenway talk

after his

presentation about

the Northern

Michigan Odawa

Tribe.

FRIENDS Membership FORM

The Friends support the library in many different ways. Our activities include but are not limited to sponsoring the Summer Reading Program, volunteering for library and Friends events, holiday decorating of the library, sending books to military personnel, delivering “Books for Babies”, an informational package, to new mothers at the United Memorial Health Center, but that’s not all that we do. We need many volunteers to work on these and other existing projects. Please consider renewing or joining the Friends. Thank you!

Individual Member $5.00 Family $10.00 Contributing Member $_______ Name: ________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________

City, State, Zip code ____________________________________________

Phone and E-mail _______________________________________________

What are your interests? _________________________________________

The membership year is January 1 through December 31, 2016. Please make your check payable to Friends of the Flat River Community Library and mail it to or drop it off at the FRCL, 200 W.

Judd St., Greenville, MI 48838. Thank you, we appreciate your support! *Checks/cash may be dropped off at the Library Circulation Desk with this completed form.

(Aug16)

Friends Book Store Doorway to Be Transformed

In the coming days and weeks, Susan Moss

will transform our book store doorway. Sorry,

you cannot have a peek at the design that she

will paint, but you know her work.

Sue was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois,

she moved to Michigan with her husband, in

1993. She is graduated from Illinois University

DeKalb, with a BA in art. And on August 22,

2014, she received the “Public Vote Prize,” at

the Art @ the Green event with her painting

“Stone Bridge at Baldwin Lake.”

Friends is thrilled to employ a local artist of

this caliber to highlight the doorway to its

book store—a doorway to knowledge and

education, mixed with a bit of fun! Watch that

space. It’s Friends sponsored.

Summer Reading Program Photographs What Friends Are Reading Now…

Memoir The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

Nonfiction A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach, by Loreen

Niewenhuis

Fiction First Comes Love, by Emily Griffin

Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards

In Twenty Years, by Allison Winn Scotch

The Dog Master: A novel of the first dog, by

W. Bruce Cameron

The Girl in the Red Coat, by Kate Hamer

The Traitor’s Wife, by Allison Pataki

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony

Doerr

Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, by

Jacqueline Winspear

The Amber Room, by Steve Berry

The Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke

The Neon Rainbow, by James Lee Burke

Without Remorse, by Tom Clancy

The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly

Kill Shot, by Vince Flynn

Murder 101, by Faye Kellerman

Blowback, by Brad Thor

Hot Mahogany, by Stuart Woods

Unnatural Acts, by Stuart Woods

The Traitor, by Stephen Coonts

Cold Betrayal, by J.A. Jance

Milk and Honey, by Faye Kellerman

Everywhere That Mary Went, by Lisa

Scottoline

Indelible, by Karin Slaughter

A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler

Change in Friends Meeting Calendar

For many years, Friends meetings

have been held on the first Thursday

of the month, January to November. In

a discussion at the July meeting, it was

agreed and approved that Friends will

continue to meet on the first Thursday

of the month, but February to

December. The reason for the change

to include December and oust January

has to do with weather—precisely,

snow and ice. It has been observed that

we receive more bad weather in

January than December, which causes

fewer people to attend the January

meetings, thus the change.

Tids ‘n’ Bits • Donations of unfrosted cookies and

single-serve breads for the August 18–20

cookie sale during Danish Festival are

requested. Please bring your baked goods to

the library Circulation Desk and accept our

thanks for your yummy donations!

• Don’t forget about the “Lucky Day”

bookshelf and the TEMPO (Contemporary)

titles of popular and newly published books

for and about people who are 20- to 30-

years old. There is a three-week checkout.

TEMPO titles may be put on hold and

renewed! • Genealogy questions? Please see

Librarian Kelly Worden. Appointments are

available for consultations. • Zinio is the digital magazine subscription

that’s FREE of charge at the library. Check

it out online in the library or from your

home—and don’t pay another magazine

subscription fee! Read every issue of the

magazines you love: Cook’s Country,

Fitness, Golf Digest, Lucky, Kiplinger’s,

Self, and many, many more!

• Ancestry.com library edition is available

online, in the library. See the Research

Librarian for details.

Welcome New Friends Members! A big welcome and thank you for joining

the Friends goes to new members Joycelyn

Sharp and Jill Dibble, both of Greenville.

Notes from the day…The parking lot was brimming. Shouts of glee could be heard a block away. Registration lines were long but everyone kept their cool. A young golfer remarked how much the game of golf was like baseball—fore! The bounce house shook. Young girls proudly wore their face paint. People reacquainted them-selves with the bookshelves. All’s right with the world!

It’s Book Sale Time!

Please join us for our biggest book

sale of the year—during Danish

Festival. Details on the back page!