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10 3, 2022

Makerspace Monday: Perfect Personalized Pot Holder

By |2022-09-13T11:35:34-04:00October 3, 2022|

It’s baking season! (Then again, every season is baking season to the true believer.) Watch how you can make the perfect personalized pot holder using the vinyl cutter and heat press from The HUB’s makerspace.

The makerspace also has a large-format printer, vinyl cutter, heat press, button maker, green-screen studio, and more state-of-the-art tech that can be used with library staff supervision. Click here for more information on The HUB’s makerspace, including how to make a reservation. And click here for more makerspace and 3D printing ideas!

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09 28, 2022

Cleveland Opera Theater’s Stephanie Ruozzo on Opera For All

By |2022-09-21T16:13:38-04:00September 28, 2022|

Stephanie Ruozzo, director of education and engagement for Cleveland Opera Theater, visited us earlier this month and discussed:

  • how the music and plots of famous operas still pervade pop culture
  • why animation — from Bugs Bunny to The Simpsons to Trolls — so often incorporates opera
  • why Cleveland Opera Theater’s mission is Opera For All
  • where to begin when listening to opera
  • which sequence from Fantasia is her favorite

By the way, if you’re looking for an introduction to opera, you can stream these Great Courses from composer and professor Robert Greenberg for free with your Mentor Public Library card.

  1. How to Listen to and Understand Opera 
  2. The Operas of Mozart
  3. The Life & Operas of Verdi
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09 24, 2022

You’re History, Episode II: Roanoke & Chowing Down on Ron Chernow

By |2022-08-29T17:16:49-04:00September 24, 2022|

Our resident history wonks John Foster and Traci Hoffman like big books and they cannot lie. So when Ron Chernow writes an 1,100-page biography of President Ulysses Grant, they don’t just read it. They want to tell you all about it!

This time, they’re discussing:

  1. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. (Yes, they discuss the musical. No, neither John nor Traci try to sing anything from it.)
  2. The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler
  3. Grant by Ron Chernow
  4. My Dear Hamilton by Laura Kaye and Stephanie Dray Listen

Listen and learn who wrote John’s favorite presidential memoir and why John White was a terrible grandfather. And come back for more You’re History every month.

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09 22, 2022

In His Own Words: James A. Garfield on Race and Justice

By |2022-09-14T15:38:08-04:00September 22, 2022|

Park Ranger Alan Gephardt from James A. Garfield National Historic Site uses Garfield’s own words to describe how the president’s feelings on race and justice changed over time. Though he would not describe himself as an abolitionist, Garfield believed that slavery was a moral and political stain in the fabric of a nation conceived in liberty… but he didn’t always believe that.

The next talk in our Civil War series with Garfield National Historic Site will be at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The topic will be the astonishing life and naval career of Admiral David Farragut.

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

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