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Ken Tingley's avatar

The Saratoga Public Library is hosting a “banned book event” on Thursday, Oct. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Cafe Lena in Saratoga with local authors reading from banned books. I will be the MC for the evening with one banned book from each decade since the 1960s being read. I urge you all to check it out.

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Helen Nerska's avatar

As a child I could choose any book the library had to offer as reading, not what you read, was the emphasis in my family. But today, as I discover a north country girl had no idea what was going on in the world, I do have a suggested reading list for my 16 year old grandgirls which includes all the books that share the real story about what was actually happening when I was growing up and what was not taught in my school. The Color of Law, Ida B the Queen, the War before the War, Blood and Thunder, Empire of the Summer Moon, Four Hundred Souls and the Sum of Us are a few from this list. I am thankful these books exist for me to share with the children in my family. As a community we have a long way to go understand how important it is to know what kind of world we lived in so we do not make the same mistakes again - okay so that won't happen! But these books are exceptional.

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