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Looking for something to do on New Year's Eve in Kalamazoo? Take part in downtown Kalamazoo's 2007 New Year's Fest. This annual event draws more than 25 entertainers throughout many venues in the downtown area and includes a spectacular fireworks display.
Buttons that offer admission to this event are only $5 and can be purchased ahead of time at many local businesses. Visit New Year's Fest home on the web.
Kalamazoo Public Library's Reading Together 2008 features Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. From the book description:
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
Learn more about the 2008 Reading Together program at the Kalamazoo Public Library.
