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Loving their books and bookmark -- Pictured here (left to right) are
Grace, Rachel and Clayton, children of Thomas “Rusty” and Stacey
Skelton, and “Grandma Reads”: Pat Miller. [Click on picture
for larger image]
Last month's featured story was
“Prairie Dog Pioneers.” Following the reading, Grandma Miller
accompanied the group on the guitar in singing “Home on the Range.”
Cowboy poetry reading
After “Old Tuff,” “Jack Potter's
Courtin',” and “Hell in Texas,” Jim Fielden concluded with “The
Cowboy's Prayer” plea: “And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead /
That stretches upward toward the Great Divide.” Diane Monday read
“To Be a Top Hand" to represent a cowgirl at the recent cowboy
poetry reading.
First lady Laura Bush's cookies were
delicious. Here's the recipe:
Laura Bush's cowboy cookies
3 sticks butter
1½ cups sugar
1½ cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3 cups chocolate chips
3 cups rolled oats
2 cups coconut
2 cups pecans
Directions: Cream butter and sugars.
Beat in eggs; add vanilla. Add next five ingredients until blended.
Stir in chips, oats, coconut and pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for 10
to 12 minutes. Makes 120.
Nutritional information, per cookie: 97
calories, 1 g protein, 11 g carbohydrate, 6 g fat, 11 mg
cholesterol, 89 mg sodium.
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Travel literature
Travel literature is being accumulated
and filed. Brochures and addresses of travel bureaus and
associations are available, from those of the University of Iowa to
Go Ahead vacations and Lord Addison of England. Here is help for
planning vacations!
Available also are the Cherokee
Heritage Center's 2003 calendar of events, a letter about classes at
the Arizona Culinary Institute and the “Official Visitors Guide to
Space City” -- Houston, Texas, and environs.
New hours
Anyone may borrow books free -- no
library cards or admission fee at the Knapp Library.
Fall and winter hours are as follows:
Tuesday, 2-5 p.m.
Wednesday, 1-4 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon
All-you-can-eat turkey supper
Mark your calendars! The annual Knapp-Chesnut-Becker
Historical Society's "all-you-can-eat" turkey supper at the middle
school in Middletown is slated for Saturday, Oct. 18, from 4 to 7
p.m. The event offers good food, good fellowship and important
historical displays.
[News release]
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