Wickson Library is launching a new and exciting Winter Reading Challenge to kick off the new year. Winter is the perfect time to start or...

As of July 1, 2024, the Frankenmuth Wickson District Library has welcomed Jennifer Harden into the newly established role of full-time...

As winter comes to a close, the Wickson Library is gearing up for an exciting array of spring programming. Partnering with Michigan...

One of my favorite aspects of Books for Lunch is that it seamlessly showcases the power of storytelling to transport us across time,...

I enter the library and shake the snow from my boots. I’m ten minutes early, but already there are a few people gathered on this...

When I was a college student in West Michigan my landlord had a single bumper sticker on the back of her car that read, “Follow the...

Many of us have probably been reading books by ourselves for most of our lives. Outside of the stories our caregivers read to us as a...

National Friends of Libraries Week is October 15-21, 2023, the perfect time for us to pause and celebrate the ongoing work of the...

What if I told you a single book could alter the course of your life? Would you believe me? For native-born Michigander, podcaster, and...

When you think of checking something out from the library, you probably think of books. Why wouldn’t you? Books are, and probably will...

Kelsey Ronan's 2023 Michigan Notable Book, Chevy in the Hole, is a stunning, painfully honest love letter to Flint, MI. The popular story...

This week I opened the windows and read to the soundtrack of birdsong, the hum of my neighbor’s lawnmower, the rush of the creek at the...

Spring is officially here, and we’re gladly welcoming the warmer, more colorful changes of the season. In my own yard, the robins have...

According to the Library of Michigan, “Every year, the Library of Michigan selects up to twenty of the most notable books, either written...

Books for Lunch, the library’s no-obligation book club, continues to meet on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:30-2:00 pm. We’ve...

Love is in the air this week as many of us celebrate Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re celebrating with a loved one, boycotting the...

Nineteenth century British poet Walter Landor made this observation, and many people have agreed since then. I thought it would be...

In the library’s quest to have fun in the summer rewarding readers for doing what they do, i.e., read, it has become easier than ever to...

Books for Lunch had its first post-Zoom era in person meeting at the library last week, a dozen strong including three new people. Here...

Nine years ago, during a discussion about the library needing a book club, then-director Mary Chasseur told me there was a history of...