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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-06-21/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-06-14/
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CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-06-07/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” by Kim Michele Richardson \nFrom Amazon: \nThe bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson\, this is a novel following Cussy Mary\, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves\, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! \nThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books\, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project\, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian\, Cussy Mary Carter. \nCussy’s not only a book woman\, however\, she’s also the last of her kind\, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project\, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks\, she’s going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. \nInspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s\, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage\, fierce strength\, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260531T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-05-31/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260530T150000
DTSTAMP:20260510T181149Z
CREATED:20260503T024611Z
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UID:10001164-1780142400-1780153200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Annual Plant Sale
DESCRIPTION:See the Plant sale flyer \nCome on down to the library and get your starters for the year! Ornamental and edible plants for sale\, all to support the library.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/annual-plant-sale/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260524T160000
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-05-24/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-05-17/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-05-10/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260503T180000
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-05-03/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260502T153000
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UID:10001160-1777735800-1777741200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:“The World According to Color” by James Fox \nFrom Amazon: \nWe 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. \nThrough 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. \nFox 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. \nBy 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.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-9/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260426T160000
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UID:10000644-1777219200-1777226400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10000643-1776614400-1776621600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-19/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10000642-1776009600-1776016800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-12/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260405T180000
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UID:10000641-1775404800-1775412000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-05/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260404T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260216T071746Z
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UID:10001159-1775316600-1775322000@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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T203000
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CREATED:20260216T072404Z
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UID:10001161-1774981800-1774989000@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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260329T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260329T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
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UID:10000640-1774800000-1774807200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-29/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260322T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000639-1774195200-1774202400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-22/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260315T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260315T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000638-1773590400-1773597600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-15/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260308T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000637-1772985600-1772992800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260206T220518Z
CREATED:20260204T024907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T220518Z
UID:10001155-1772897400-1772902800@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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T203000
DTSTAMP:20260216T070217Z
CREATED:20260216T070217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T070217Z
UID:10001157-1772476200-1772483400@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:20260301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260301T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-01/
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:10001156-1772038800-1772046000@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:20260222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260222T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000635-1771776000-1771783200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-22/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260215T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000634-1771171200-1771178400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-15/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260208T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000633-1770566400-1770573600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-08/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260204T024215Z
CREATED:20260204T024108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T024215Z
UID:10001154-1770478200-1770483600@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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260201T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T200833Z
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000632-1769961600-1769968800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-01/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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