New, Expanded Book Nook in the Braden River Library

Greetings, fellow book lovers…..that’s YOU! If you just can’t wait until the next Friends book sale at Braden River Library, here’s a great solution — the Book Nook. Inside the library are shelves and shelves of goodies for sale at remarkable prices. Make your selection, deposit what you’d like to pay (please be generous), and hurry home to start reading. Fiction, non fiction, cookbooks, puzzles, DVDs, CDs. You should come and take a look to buy your next new, favorite book.

Trivia Night – Every 3rd Monday at 6:00PM

Bingo Night – Every 1st Monday at 6:00PM

Art Lecture with Nick Hauser – March 10, 2026 – 2:30PM – 3:30PM

Masters of American Western Art: How the West was Drawn

One of the greatest contributions to culture is American Western Art. Learn about how the west was drawn! From the early visionaries like Charles Bird King, George Catlin, Karl Bodmer and Albert Bierstadt to the New Olympians: Frederic Remington, Charles Schreyvogel (Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite painter), Charles Marion Russell. Also discover the illustrators who became great painters of the Old West, Elizabeth Barchus, Harvey Dunn and others. Learn about those artists who applied the ideas of Impressionism to American Western Art like Maynard Dixon. Finally, we’ll cover photographers who chronicled the Old West like Edward Curtis and the New West, like Ansel Adams.