Board of Director's Meeting
2026-03-31 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Anchorage) | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Open Hours
2026-04-01 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-11 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-15 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-25 13:00 - 16:00 and 3 more dates

Adult Book Club
2026-04-04 15:30 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
This month, “Delicate, Edible Birds”, by Lauren Groff.
This, from Amazon:
Following the publication of Groff’s first novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008), comes this collection of nine short stories, six of which have never been published. The richly conceived, finely detailed stories offer portraits of smart, daring women who are in search of, in thrall to, or disillusioned by love. In “Lucky Chow Fun,” winner of a Pushcart Prize, Groff returns to the town of Templeton to tell the story of a high-school swimmer who uncovers the sordid sexual secrets of her seemingly idyllic small town. “L. DeBard and Aliette,” included in the latest edition of Best American Short Stories, is a reimagining of the love story of Abelard and Héloïse that sees the couple recast as an Olympic swimmer and his pupil, both of whom suffer through the flu epidemic of 1918. And in the title story, an unconventional female reporter, fleeing the Nazis in rural France along with a band of male correspondents, must strike a sordid bargain with a brutal farmer to secure their safe passage.

Writing Circle/Open hours
2026-04-05 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-12 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-19 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-26 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Kid's art and crafts
2026-04-06 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-13 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-20 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-27 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-04 15:00 - 18:00

Knit Night/Open Hours
2026-04-07 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-14 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-21 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-28 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-05 16:00 - 19:00

Spring Fundraiser: Once Upon a Spring
2026-04-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Golden Eagle Saloon, 3530 Main Steet, Fairbanks, 99709, United States
So far, we’ve got round trip tickets for the following tours: Northern Alaska Tour Company’s Fly and Drive to the Arctic Circle, Stan Stephens Columbia Glacier cruise, and Alaska Railroad tickets from Anchorage to Seward (all tours are for 2 people), the Pump House Restaurant, and the Fairbanks Children’s Museum.
These are just a few of the items up for the silent auction. We have lots more – tools, kitchen implements, art and prints and swag from local breweries and restaurants.
Come on out, dressed as your favorite literary character (or not – costumes not required)! We’ll have a photo booth and a DJ from 7-10 Saturday, April 18, 2026!

Adult Book Club
2026-05-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
“The World According to Color” by James Fox
From Amazon:
We have an extraordinary connection to color―we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors―black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green―and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history.
Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations.
Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art―from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein―in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art―moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond.
By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
