shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com April 5, 2016 • Page 11 New At The Library Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: Adult Books • All Things Cease to Exist by Elizabeth Brundage; Fiction • A Bed of Scorpions by Judith Flanders; Fiction • Bottomland by Michelle Hoover; Fiction • Burning Down the House by Jane Mendelsohn; Fiction • Crazy Blood by T. Jefferson Parker; Fiction • Deep Blue by Randy Wayne White; Fiction • The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie; Fiction • Everything She Forgot by Lisa Ballantyne; Fiction • The Forbidden Orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller; Fiction • Hide by Matthew Griffin; Fiction • I’ll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable; Fiction • Interior Darkness by Peter Straub; Fiction • The Last Dawn by Joe Gannon; Fiction • The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates; Fiction • Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington; Fiction • The Orion Plan by Mark Alpert; Fiction • Piece of Mind by Michelle Adelman; Fiction • Second House From the Corner by Sadeqa Johnson; Fiction • Stillwater by Melissa Lenhardt; Fiction • Number Zero by Umberto Eco; Fiction • Naturally Bug-Free by Stephanie L. Tourles; Nonfiction • Planet Middle School by Dr. Kevin Leman; Nonfiction • The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Nonfiction Adult Audio Books • At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier; Fiction • Deep Blue by Randy Wayne White; Fiction Adult DVDs • Sisters Young Adult Books • EXIT, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston; Fiction • The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins; Fiction • The Keeper of the Mist by Rachel Neumeier; Fiction • The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong; Fiction • Where You’ll Find Me by Natasha Friend; Fiction Easy Books • You Never Heard of Casey Stengel?! by Winter & Blitt; Nonfiction ——— Did you know that you can reserve an item from home? Staff will then notify you as soon as the item is available. The Bookworm Some Presidential History “Dead Presidents” by Brady Carlson; © 2016, W.W. Norton; 324 pages ——— www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com for nearly 90 years after George died. Every schoolchild knows that John Q. Adams and Thomas Jefferson — friends, rivals, and signers of the Declaration of Independence — both died on July 4, 1826. That’s an eerie coincidence, but Carlson says it’s more common than we think. Presidents Ford and Truman both died the day after Christmas (in different years). James Madison almost died on Independence Day, 1836, but he declined Visit our Web site at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Visit our Web site at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Art Forms There’sour Web site at Visit A Shower Of Artsour WebStore! Visit In site at By Julie J. Amsberry and gallery talk Friday, May 6, from 5-7 p.m. Yankton Area Arts is Julie excited to partner with the CramerKenyon Heritage Home on an event we are calling “Imitating Alice.” Alice Bulfinch Cramer studied art and literature in New York and filled what is now the Heritage Home with her hauntingly beautiful artwork. We have created an exciting afternoon celebrating the life, history and artwork of Alice. The afternoon will begin with a Tour of Cramer-Kenyon home followed by a light luncheon catered by Willa B’s. Guests will then move to the GAR Hall to recreate (or imitate) one of Alice’s paintings in a “Paint & Sip”-style class led by Cheryl Peterson-Halsey. Cheryl’s sense of humor and laid back attitude make students of all ability levels feel comfortable with paintbrush in hand. The event will take place on Saturday, April 30, www.missourivalleyshopper.com Yankton Area Arts April showers bring May flowers! This April, the showers appear to be in the form of arts activities in our community! The current exhibit in the GAR Hall Art Gallery celebrates student artists of Yankton High School. On display through April 12, the students VERMILLION --- The Edith B. Seigrist Vermillion Public Lihave created book sculptures, brary has announced a spring book club that will coincide with paintings, drawings, pottery the planned Earth Week events in the Vermillion Community. and artist-inspired pieces they Vermillion resident and soil aficionado Dean Spader will lead have been working on all year. a two-session discussion on Douglas Tallamy’s “Bringing Nature The students and teachers Home.” These discussions will be held April 4 and 11 from 3:30were honored with a reception 5 p.m. at the Vermillion library. March 4. Jonathan Lundgren, PhD, an award-winning research South Yankton Area Arts is Dakota ecologist/entomologist will join the group for one class pleased to welcome the Con(See his article in December 2015 ACRES U.S.A. magazine, pp. necting Artists to the gallery 12-16, which is also at the VPL), and the group may visit local for an exhibit opening April yards with native plants for a class. 15 and running through May Douglas Tallamy in “Bringing Nature Home” show the grow- 31. The Connecting Artists, ing importance of town yards for the preservation of our native formed in 1998, is a group of pollinators, insects, and birds. The leaf chemistry of native about 20 artists with a mission plants is very different from that of modern landscaping plants; to support, connect and enthus, native pollinators and birds are starving because they courage visual artists from becannot eat most town and country flowers, grasses, and other ginners to professionals ages plants. Tallamy provides many beautiful solutions and practical 18 and up. The group meets suggestions. once a month at GAR Hall. The Ten copies of “Bringing Nature Home” are available for upcoming exhibit will feature checkout at the Circulation Desk of the library. Once you are a variety of artwork including finished with the book, you are asked to return it so others may painting, drawing, sculpture, and jewelry. We will celebrate have a chance to read it before the discussion. the artists with a reception For more information, call 605-677-7060. The Edith B. Seigrist Vermillion Public Library is located at 18 Church Street, Vermillion. Vermillion Spring Book Club Planned www.missourivalleyshopper.com BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Someday, you might have your very own stone. Everyone will know it’s yours because your name will be on it, along with a couple of dates. It’ll be yours for a long time, perhaps forever, but sadly, you’ll never see it in its finished form. You’ll just have to trust that it’s the right size for the job or, as in “Dead Presidents” by Brady Carlson, you could be memorialized with a stone the size of a South Dakota mountain. Brady Carlson is a curious guy and when his curiosity is piqued, he tends to go all-out in a search for information. Years ago, in grade school, he became interested in U.S. presidents and he noticed that most books are written about “the lives of our leaders.” That led him to wonder about their deaths. A few years ago, he finally acted on his inquisitiveness with a cross-country journey to the graves of the presidents and their monuments. Beginning with the Father of Our Country, Carlson learned that Washington didn’t want a lot of foofaraw upon his death. He really didn’t want a city to be named after himself, either; one can only imagine how he’d feel about his monument which, by the way, wasn’t finished medical help to do so, and died a few days prior. Abraham Lincoln’s bones sat in a basement “for almost a decade.” Parts of James Garfield’s skeletal remains are in a museum, remnants of an attempted murder, a trial, and mishandled injury. One president was exhumed 140 years after he died, one lay in a temporary crypt for “two months longer than his entire presidency…” and, surprisingly, just one (so far) rests in peace in Washington. In less than a year, a new person will sit in the Oval Office. What happened to thirty-nine of his (or her) predecessors is the premise behind this peek at presidential passings. You don’t have to look much past the title of “Dead Presidents” to know that you’re in for something enjoyably irreverent here, but author Brady Carlson isn’t disrespectful. His fascinating journey was genuine, as evidenced by places he sleuthed, people he met along the way, and the can’t-stop-reading information he found. We learn about gravesites and places where we only think a president rests in peace. We learn how he got there — sometimes a circuitous route. And we learn how our former leaders are remembered forever. Or not. History buffs will relish this book. Trivia lovers will eat it up, and political fans should lobby for it. If politics as (un) usual has your ear this year, “Dead Presidents” is stone-cold fun. www.missourivalleyshopper.com AmsberrY www.missourivalleyshopper.com beginning at noon. The cost of the event is $50. You can register by calling Yankton Area Arts at 665-9754 or on the YAA website: www.YanktonAreaArts.org/event. Space is limited so please register early for this all-inclusive soiree. Various fun, artistic events are scheduled this month throughout the community! • The Yankton RiverWalk will be having its annual Sculpture Sneak Peek event at Czeckers Grill & Bar on April 7 from 5-7 p.m. Stop in to see the sculptures that will soon be placed downtown! • On April 12, the Yankton Middle 7th and 8th Grade Chorus members will be taking their audience back in time at their concert “Those Awesome ‘80s!” You are sure to have a totally rad time remembering some groovy tunes! • The Yankton High School Drama Department will definitely amaze in its Spring Musical, “CATS.” The cast of 80 is led by director Amy Miner, choreographer Kathryn Reimler, music director yours truly, and costume and set design by YAA’s Art Advocate of the Year Pam Kallis! The performances are April 14-16 and 18 at 7 p.m. at Yankton High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door for only $5/adults, $4/students, and $3/ students with activity tickets. • Tickets for the Green Room Dance Studio’s Spring Recital will go on sale starting April 24 from 1-4 p.m. at the studio. Tickets are $10 plus tax. The recital is scheduled for May 28 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. • Finally, the YHS Fine Arts Hall of Fame and Fine Arts Awards will take place on Tuesday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. and the All District Visual Art Exhibit will be on display at Yankton Middle School April 29-30. 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