The story-hour with Jill, is this coming Tuesday, February 14, at 10:00 a.m. in the meeting room at the library. Children of all ages are welcome. There will be a story with a craft.
The “Take your Child to the Library” is still going on and will conclude on February 14 at 12 noon. Be sure and come by and get your child signed up for this.
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself.
Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted.
Eachexperiencedimmense success, then failures that forced them to change; each face d the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.
InKilling the Legends; The Lethal Danger of Celebrity, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century.
On the evening of Nov. 3, 1966, 17-year-old Carol Ann Farino, a pretty, popular high school student left work at Milt's Cup & Saucer in Maplewood, NJ, a small town just 10 miles west of New York City and began her regular walk home.
She never made it. Less than 30 minutes later, her dead body was found just a half mile away, strangled with her own stocking and left with signs of attempted sexual assault.
Oddly, her purse and shoes were missing. For more than 50 years local police have been unsuccessful in their investigation, following hundreds of leads, interviewing dozens of friends and family and trying to determine who did this brutal crime and why. But the other victim of the killing is Carol's younger sister, Cynthia.
Only 11 years old at the time, she has carried emotional scars, uncertainty, and pain from the ordeal for decades. She also still wonders who did this and why.
A Long Walk Home by Joe Strupp, tells the story of this vicious killing, the decades of searching for answers, and some apparent missteps by law enforcement. A seasoned reporter of more than 30 years, Joe Strupp, has covered criminal cases and true crime for years.
He delves into Carol's background, who might have killed her, and how the killing affected Carol's younger sister, who is still asking questions today When 96-year-old retired U.S. Marshal and co-founder of Cowboys and Indians Detective Agency, William Matthew Wallace, receives a painting signed by his longdead father in the mail from his former colleague living in New Orleans, an eightdecades- old family mystery unravels, and his son and godson are sent to investigate the circumstances for him.
From pre-statehood Oklahoma into the turn of the twenty-first century, the family's secrets are brought to light as a modern crime evolves from the past.
A Secret Lies in New Orleans by author Ron Wallace. A side note about the author Ron Wallace, he is an Oklahoma native and currently an adjunct instructor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in Durant, Oklahoma, where he was born and raised.