We can lengthen your life — really

The most recent issue of the AARP magazine has a cover story on 99 ways to extend your life. One of the ways is to volunteer. Another is to hang around younger people. And another is to keep your brain working. Here’s a way to do three in one, and it’s on...

Using library to talk about research

Visitors and members of the H.O.T Genealogical Society met today, Jan. 3, for a long look at the research it takes to put together a comprehensive look at your family tree, comprehensive enough to be published into book form. More than a dozen were in attendance in...

Kids raising money for our expansion

Children from a Wimberley home-school group staged a Kids Entrepreneur Market on Saturday, Dec. 22, on the front porches of the library to help raise funds for our expansion. The kids sold everything from hand-made slime to hand-made wool caps. The foundation and the...

A curious matter of taste, Part 1

Literary Hub, a website for exactly what it seems to be, has recently published an absolute goldmine worth of material about best-selling fiction and nonfiction for the last 100 years. Talk about a good way to gauge what a nation’s obsessing on! I’m sure...

Movies chosen for film festival

Twenty short and very short movies have been selected to be shown in competition at the Wimberley Film Festival, now in its fifth year. The festival is sponsored by the Wimberley Village Library and Wimberley Valley Chamber of Commerce. The films all have a Texas...