Working on the brain

A new program aimed at helping seniors maximize their brain power started on January 7 and continues. The classes are on Monday mornings at the library in the much-used multi-purpose room. Here is what our promotional material said about the class: Ageless Grace is a...

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...

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...

I guess I’ll never know what I missed …

The New York Times Book Review published notes on the “10 Best Books of 2018” last Sunday. Five are fiction; five are nonfiction. I have seen most all of them on the shelf for new books at the front of the library at one time or another this year. So, I...