kalkaskalibrary@yahoo.com
231-258-9411
247 S. Cedar
Kalkaska, Michigan 49646

Tues & Fri 9-5
Wed & Thurs 9-7:30
Sat 9-2

Closed Sun. & Mon.

Saturday May 17th: Friends of the Kalkaska County Library Annual Used Book Sale.  At the Senior Center from 9-3.  Pre-sale for Friends members only on Friday evening, at 6pm May 16th (after set-up).

Robert Dale Parker May 29th at 6:00pm The Library is honored to be hosting Michigan Notable Book Award winning author (and English Professor from the University of Illinois) Robert Dale Parker with refreshments beginning at 5:30.  Professor Parker’s detailed research has resulted in a renowned collected works compilation of the writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, titled “The Sounds the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky”. Parker reveals the hidden story behind this little known woman of many talents, born in Sault St. Marie, Michigan in 1800.  A bilingual Ojibwa, she composed prose, poetry and was noted for collecting and translating native peoples’ oral stories and legends (including one which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would later use to create the famous epic poem “Song of Hiawatha”.)  Hear first hand about the works of this remarkable Native American woman, known to her people as “The Woman of the Sounds the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky".