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SUMMARY:Open Hours
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/open-hours-22/
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SUMMARY:Open Hours
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/open-hours-21/
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Club
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/childrens-book-club-3/
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UID:7753-1748097000-1748102400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Children's Book Club
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/childrens-book-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:7800-1749056400-1749063600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Open Hours
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/open-hours-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250607T163000
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UID:7756-1749308400-1749313800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Title to be announced!
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250802T163000
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UID:7847-1754146800-1754152200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide\, by Nicholas D. Kristof \nFrom Amazon: With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides\, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there\, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience\, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger\, sadness\, clarity\, and\, ultimately\, hope. \nThey show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and\, with assistance from an aid group\, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five\, counseled to return to school\, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. \nThrough these stories\, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that\, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world\, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. \nDeeply felt\, pragmatic\, and inspirational\, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250805T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250805T190000
DTSTAMP:20250803T060122Z
CREATED:20250803T060121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250803T060122Z
UID:7853-1754409600-1754420400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Knit Night/Open Hours
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/knit-night-open-hours-2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250807T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250807T200000
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CREATED:20250803T055825Z
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UID:7850-1754589600-1754596800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Paint-in
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for an adult paint workshop!
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/paint-in/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250825T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250825T203000
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CREATED:20250803T061610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250803T061610Z
UID:7863-1756146600-1756153800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-board-meeting/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Board,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250904T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250904T200000
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UID:7876-1757008800-1757016000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult paint workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for some fun times painting whatever your heart desires!
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-paint-workshop/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250906T150000
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CREATED:20250803T060453Z
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UID:7855-1757170800-1757174400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Sisters Brothers\, by Patrick deWitt \nFrom Amazon: \nHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it\, and his henchmen\, Eli and Charlie Sisters\, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn’t share his brother’s appetite for whiskey and killing\, he’s never known anything else. But their prey isn’t an easy mark\, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside Sacramento\, Eli begins to question what he does for a living-and whom he does it for. \nWith The Sisters Brothers\, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western\, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters-losers\, cheaters\, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator\, it is a violent\, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor\, melancholy\, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood\, violence\, and love.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-4/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250906T160000
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CREATED:20250902T210015Z
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UID:7892-1757174400-1757178000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Lynda Sather\, local author\, presentation
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us to hear local author Lynda Sather talk about her latest book\,” A Smack of Jellyfish: Fear\, Fish and Finding Yourself in Alaska”\, a coming-of-age story about a young woman experiencing Petersburg\, Alaska for the first time in 1973. \nThis will be a 20-minute talk about her book\, and the process of writing fiction versus memoir\, followed by a Q & A session afterwards. \nHere is more of a description of the book: \nA Smack of Jellyfish \n 
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/lynda-sather-local-author-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250908T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250908T180000
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CREATED:20250422T013141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200038Z
UID:7738-1757343600-1757354400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Back to School Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Join us this week for ice cream!
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/open-hours-art-workshop/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250913T140000
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CREATED:20250902T194421Z
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UID:7870-1757764800-1757772000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Annual Fall Garlic Sale
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/annual-fall-garlic-sale/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250915T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250915T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200222Z
CREATED:20250902T200222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200222Z
UID:7881-1757948400-1757959200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Kid's art and crafts
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URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/kids-art-and-crafts/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250927T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20250927T220000
DTSTAMP:20250917T040419Z
CREATED:20250803T061200Z
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UID:7857-1758981600-1759010400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:LiBerry Pie and Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Fall fundraiser and pie throwdown! \nPie competition begins with entries being brought to the Clausen Cabin at 2:00PM\, with pies being judged at 4:00 PM. There are 2 categories: sweet and savory\, with a winner being crowned in each category and a grand prize champion. \nPies for sale ($5/slice) can be brought over to the Golden Eagle beginning at 5:00\, with the pie sales and music beginning at 6:00PM. Non-winning pies will also be sold for $5/slice. \nThe three winning pies will be live auctioned off at 8:00PM. \nJoin us for a night of pie eating and fun!
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/liberry-pie-and-music-festival/
LOCATION:Golden Eagle Saloon\, 3530 Main Steet\, Fairbanks\, 99709\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Fundraising
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251004T150000
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CREATED:20250902T194750Z
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UID:7872-1759590000-1759595400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection: West With Giraffes\, by Lynda Rutledge \nFrom Amazon: \nWoodrow Wilson Nickel\, age 105\, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct\, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. \nIt’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe\, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events\, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones\, including the world’s first female zoo director\, a crusty old man with a past\, a young female photographer with a secret\, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. \nPart adventure\, part historical saga\, and part coming-of-age love story\, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals\, the kindness of strangers\, the passing of time\, and a story told before it’s too late.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-5/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251006T203000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200545Z
CREATED:20250902T200545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200545Z
UID:7884-1759775400-1759782600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-board-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Board
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251019T170000
DTSTAMP:20250902T203812Z
CREATED:20250902T203812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T203812Z
UID:7890-1760889600-1760893200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Annual Membership Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a recap of the previous year\, and a look into the future of the John Trigg Ester Library! \nAdditionally\, we will be discussing the following topics for potential inclusion in updated Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation: \n\nChange to the name of the Organization\n\nReason for change to both Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation \n1) A search for “Ester Library” through Pick\, Click\, Give did not yield any results. If someone did not know the entire name (John Trigg Ester Library)\, they would not be able to donate to us. It is unknown how many other search engines do not recognize just “Ester Library” \n2) The Board felt that many residents in the current village population neither remembers John Trigg and/or recognizes his name \n3) The Board believes the Ester Village Library better represents who we are as well as where we are \nProposed change: Change the name of the Organization from the John Trigg Ester Library to Ester Village Library. These changes will occur in all applicable sections in both the Articles of Incorporation and the Bylaws. A commemorative ceremony and plaque honoring John Trigg will be dedicated at a time in the very near future. \n2.    Changes to the number of directors \nReason for change to the Bylaws \n\nWe have\, on occasion\, had difficulty filling board member positions\nState law allows dropping the number of board members to 3:\n\nAS 10.20.086 – The number of directors of a corporation shall be at least three. The number of directors shall be fixed by the bylaws…\nAS 10.20.121 – Two or more offices may be held by the same person\, except the offices of president and secretary.\n\n\n\n\nThe Board of Directors is proposing a new minimum of 5 board members with the following (2) text changes to the Bylaws:\n\nArticle V\, Section 2. NUMBER OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors may number seven (7): four (4) officers and three (3) additional elected directors. Two or more offices may be held by the same person\, except the offices of president and secretary. The minimum number of directors shall be five (5). \nArticle VI\, Section 1. DESIGNATION OF OFFICERS. The officers of the corporation shall\, at a minimum\, be two: a president and a secretary.  The positions of vice president and treasurer can be combined into the president and secretary positions. \n3.     Change from Robert’s Rules of Order to Modern Rules of Order \n            Reason for change to the Bylaws \n\nThe Modern Rules of Order are not as cumbersome as Robert’s Rules. For example\, if all members present come to a unanimous consensus\, there is no reason for a formal vote (motion to vote\, etc).\nFormal voting will still occur if there is no unanimous consent\nThe Board of Directors is proposing a change to the way Board meetings are conducted with the following (2) text changes to the Bylaws:\n\nArticle IV\, Section 10: Conduct of Meeting. …. Membership meetings will be conducted based on Modern Rules of Order \nArticle V\, Section 13: Conduct of Meeting …. Board of directors meetings will be conducted based on Modern Rules of Order. \n4. Change to number of check signers \n        Reason for change to the Bylaws – We have had single signer checks for several years. This change to the Bylaws officially recognizes this with the following word change: \nArticle VIII\, Section 2: CHECKS AND NOTES. Except as otherwise specifically determined by resolution of the board of directors\, or as otherwise required by law\, checks\, drafts\, promissory notes\, orders for the payment of money\, and other evidence of indebtedness of the corporation shall be signed by one officer of the corporation.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/annual-membership-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Board,Events,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251026T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:7886-1761494400-1761501600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251206T163000
DTSTAMP:20251102T211730Z
CREATED:20251102T211730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T211730Z
UID:7970-1765033200-1765038600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of “Why We Sleep”\, by Matthew Walker. \nThis is from Amazon: \nThe first sleep book by a leading scientific expert – Professor Matthew Walker\, director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab – reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep\, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. \nSleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life\, wellness\, and longevity. Until very recently\, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep\, or what good it served\, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don’t sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life – eating\, drinking\, and reproducing – the purpose of sleep remained elusive. \nBut an explosion of scientific discoveries in the last 20 years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now\, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Among so many other things\, within the brain\, sleep enriches our ability to learn\, memorize\, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions\, restocks our immune system\, fine-tunes our metabolism\, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity. \nWalker answers important questions about sleep: How do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us\, and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice\, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning\, mood\, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer\, Alzheimer’s\, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children\, and boost the efficiency\, success\, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed\, fascinating\, and immensely accessible\, Why We Sleep is the crucial account on sleep that will forever change listeners’ minds on the subject.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-6/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260103T163000
DTSTAMP:20251102T212003Z
CREATED:20251102T212003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T212003Z
UID:7972-1767452400-1767457800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. This is from Amazon: \nTaking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present\, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse\, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man\, while Hassan\, the son of Amir’s father’s servant\, is a Hazara – a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives\, and their fates\, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California\, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. \nThe Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal\, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons\, and the power of fathers over sons – their love\, their sacrifices\, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before\, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation\, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-7/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260204T024215Z
CREATED:20260204T024108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T024215Z
UID:8086-1770478200-1770483600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Kingdoms\, by Suleika Jaouad \nFrom Amazon: \nIn the summer after graduating from college\, Suleika Jaouad was preparing\, as they say in commencement speeches\, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found\, however\, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. \nIt started with an itch—first on her feet\, then up her legs\, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion\, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and\, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday\, a diagnosis: leukemia\, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that\, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York\, she had lost her job\, her apartment\, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed\, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. \nWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo\, a clinical trial\, and a bone marrow transplant—she was\, according to the doctors\, cured. But as she would soon learn\, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1\,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so\, she realized that she had no idea how to live. \nHow would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend\, Oscar\, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day\, 15\,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous\, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce\, tender\, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-book-club/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260225T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260225T190000
DTSTAMP:20260216T070025Z
CREATED:20260216T070025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T070025Z
UID:8101-1772038800-1772046000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Seed Catalog Party
DESCRIPTION:Come browse our assortment of catalogs\, and band together with others to order seeds for the upcoming season! \nAlso featuring Ester Library’s own Kristin Haney\, who will discuss her attendance at the 2025 Circumpolar Agricultural Conference in Norway\, offering insights into northern agriculture and resilient gardening in a changing world.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/seed-catalog-party/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T203000
DTSTAMP:20260216T070217Z
CREATED:20260216T070217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T070217Z
UID:8103-1772476200-1772483400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Library Board of Director's Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/library-board-of-directors-meeting/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Board,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260206T220518Z
CREATED:20260204T024907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T220518Z
UID:8088-1772897400-1772902800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:West with Giraffes\, by Lynda Rutledge \nFrom Amazon: \nWoodrow Wilson Nickel\, age 105\, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct\, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. \nIt’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe\, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events\, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones\, including the world’s first female zoo director\, a crusty old man with a past\, a young female photographer with a secret\, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. \nPart adventure\, part historical saga\, and part coming-of-age love story\, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals\, the kindness of strangers\, the passing of time\, and a story told before it’s too late.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260328T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260328T150000
DTSTAMP:20260318T212831Z
CREATED:20260216T070543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T212831Z
UID:8105-1774702800-1774710000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Seedy Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Seed swap – Bring your saved/extra seeds. Come browse our extensive seed catalog and “check out” some seeds! \nAt 2:00\, we will be holding a seed starting workshop. Information on variety selection\, starting dates\, container selection and temperature and lighting. \nLearn more about the community garden and Seed Library\, seed stewards\, the Spring plant sale and Alaska gardening.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/seedy-saturday/
LOCATION:Hartung Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260318T212910Z
CREATED:20260216T072404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T212910Z
UID:8111-1774981800-1774989000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Board of Director's Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/board-of-directors-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260404T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260216T071746Z
CREATED:20260216T071746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T071746Z
UID:8107-1775316600-1775322000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This month\, “Delicate\, Edible Birds”\, by Lauren Groff. \nThis\, from Amazon: \nFollowing 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.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-8/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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