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11 21, 2020

All Booked Up With Cailey & Meg: Thanksgiving Cookbooks

By |2020-11-21T12:00:52-05:00November 21, 2020|

We’re cooking comfort food (and not counting calories) this week, because Cailey and Meg our sharing their favorite Thanksgiving recipes from a quartet of delicious cookbooks, including:

  1. Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten
  2. Taste of Home’s Slow Cooker Throughout the Year
  3. The Meat-Free Monday Cookbook
  4. A Year of Pies by Ashley English

Most of the books they discuss can also be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card.

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11 20, 2020

Holiday origami at Mentor Public Library

By |2020-11-20T16:00:59-05:00November 20, 2020|

Welcome to our online Holiday Origami series with Jenn Cline from the Ohio Paper Folders!

Every week from Nov. 20 until Christmas, Jenn will share a new craft that you can make with paper (and occasionally some scissors and glue.) We’ll post a new Holiday Origami video at 4 p.m. each Friday on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, and right here!

We’ll even provide the paper if you want to make some of these crafts on your own. You can pick pages up from the Reference Desk at our Main Branch. Or, if you prefer, call ahead and we can have paper ready for you in our drive-thru.

Jenn’s crafts will be:

(The bold links will go live at 4 p.m. on their respective Fridays.)

You can also follow Jenn on Twitter and Facebook for more origami inspiration.

By the way, if you are looking for craft ideas that you can make at home, check out our Artpocalypse series. At noon each Tuesday, Mr. Josh shares a video with ideas for crafts, art projects, and science experiments that you can do at home!

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11 19, 2020

Re-Electing Abraham Lincoln

By |2020-11-19T16:00:01-05:00November 19, 2020|

The presidential election of 1864 had no precedent. Waged during a Civil War, both the Democratic and relatively young Republican party suffered from fissures in their bases and platforms. President Abraham Lincoln was convinced that he would lose the election to George McClellan, a general who he had fired twice.

Find out why Lincoln was wrong during this presentation from the experts at James A. Garfield National Historic Site.

Our monthly Civil War series with James A. Garfield National Historic Site continues at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 9. The topic will be General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea. The talk will be hosted via Zoom. Registration is required. You can sign up online or call us at (440) 255-8811 ext. 247.

History buffs will also enjoy our upcoming conversation between Dr. Benjamin T. Arrington and Dr. John Foster on Arrington’s new book about the presidential election of 1880, which saw James A. Garfield elected to our nation’s highest office. The conversation will be hosted via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 7. All are welcome.

By the way, if you’re interested in Civil War history, several talks in our Civil War series can be viewed online in their entirety, including:

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11 18, 2020

Special talk for family & caretakers of people with dementia

By |2020-11-18T16:00:32-05:00November 18, 2020|

Dementia affects more than the person with the condition. It affects family and caregivers, as well

Chera and Linda from the Kemper House – a care facility that specializes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia – share tactics for helping someone with dementia and explain how caregivers can better deal with difficult behaviors.

By the way, we’ve hosted other programs that can help families dealing with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. They are still available to watch on our YouTube channel.

Chera and Linda will return for an online program about hoarding behavior and dementia at 2 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14. The program is free to watch and will be broadcast via Zoom. You can register to attend online or call us at (440) 255-8811 ext. 247.

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11 14, 2020

All Booked Up With Cailey & Meg: National Book Awards

By |2020-11-14T12:00:29-05:00November 14, 2020|

In anticipation of the National Book Awards (which will be presented next week), Cailey and Meg discuss four of their favorite books that have either been nominated or won a National Book Award. (This week is pretty heavy on US history.) They discuss:

  1. We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
  2. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
  3. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
  4. 1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler

Most of the books they discuss can also be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card.

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