Main Library to celebrate 50th anniversary on Feb. 22
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
The Main Library is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an open house from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. The event will feature a community resource fair, interactive activities for all ages, a visit from the Book Van, a live concert, exhibits and displays.
In addition, at 11 a.m. architects Edie Cherry and Erik Mease will give a talk highlighting the library鈥檚 architectural significance and historical impact.
The sa国际传媒官网网页入口 and Bernalillo County Main Library is located at 501 Copper Ave. NW.
AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS
Treasure House Books & Gifts hosts two author events this week.
Cindy Sloan Butts signs her latest Holocaust-related historical novel 鈥淰ersailles, Vichy and le V茅lodrome d鈥橦iver: France and the Holocaust鈥� from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16. In the novel, a family is victimized by the Nazis and the complicit Vichy government. Thanks to their determined oldest son and an anonymous ally, the family prevails.
From 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Baker H. Morrow will read from and sign his recent group of short stories about coming-of-age in sa国际传媒官网网页入口 titled 鈥淭he Horse on the Sidewalk.鈥� The horse in the title refers to a motorcycle that teenager Gil Wheeler so desperately wants.
Treasure House is located at 2012 South Plaza St. NW, Old Town.
AT COLLECTED WORKS
Deborah Smith Douglas will discuss and sign her book 鈥淧ilgrim Life: Finding God Along the Way鈥� at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe. The book invites readers to find God in surprising places 鈥� 鈥渋n the dark, in the deep and in the silence.鈥�
Douglas introduces readers to poems, saints, the lost and the lonely, the fearful and the faithful.
Douglas is also the author of the book 鈥淭he Praying Life: Seeing God in All Things鈥� and is co-author with her husband, David Douglas, of 鈥淧ilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain.鈥� The Douglases live in Santa Fe.
AT TEATRO PARAGUAS
Four New Mexico poets will read from their work at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe. The poets are Alan Abrams, whose poem 鈥淎leinu鈥� was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Argo MacCallum, co-founder and artistic director of Teatro Paraguas; Stephen Jules Rubin, founder of Julesworks, an ongoing presentation of music, poetry and theater; and Bill Nevins, who will read from his poetry collection 鈥淟ight Bending.鈥� Nevins said that the poem 鈥淪ilence of the Messengers,鈥� which is in the collection, was made into a short film that is an official selection of the 2025 Santa Fe Film Festival. The film, by sa国际传媒官网网页入口鈥檚 Justin R. Romine, is a visual interpretation of the poem, according to Nevins.
AT GERONIMO鈥橲 BOOKS
Judy Natal will discuss her books 鈥淓arthWords鈥� and 鈥淣eon Boneyard Las Vegas A-Z鈥� at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Geronimo鈥檚 Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Santa Fe. Natal is a Chicago-based artist and professor emeritus of photography at Columbia College Chicago.
