June 6 p.m. Programs at the Library

 

July Programs at the Stroud (OK) Library

 Call the library to reserve your spot/

This program is made possible through the Oklahoma Route 66 Revitalization Grant. We extend our sincere appreciation to the Oklahoma Route 66 Commission and to the Oklahoma legislators who champion Route 66 revitalization across our state.

"UFO'S OVER OKLAHOMA" , July 13, 6 p.m., Stroud Public LIbrary

 Local author and researcher, Marilyn A. Hudson, will do a presentation at the Stroud Public Library on the topic "UFOS OVER OKLAHOMA."

She has been called the 'genie of bizarre historical research'  (Doug Dawgz Blog)  and her fiction writing has been described as 'darkly poetic' (author Keith Pyeatt).

Marilyn A. Hudson has been a library professional in public, school, and academic libraries. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore, and storytelling.

She started writing by authoring essays, articles, and editorials in a number of periodicals, serving as a contributing editor for two and as a newspaper stringer in Enid, Oklahoma.  Over the years she has been newsletter editor for several organizational newsletters.

She has presented workshops, speeches. and shared stories to a diverse range of audiences - children to adults - and has kept them spellbound and engaged.

To better conduct research about the unidentified flying objects field, she joined MUFON, trained to become a certified Field Investigator, and served, briefly, as the Oklahoma State Director of the Mutual UFO Network.

Her fictional works include Foul Harvest and The Sword of Anath. Children's works Elephant Hips Are Expensive, Annie Oklahoma, and others.  Also, The Bones of Summer, The Mound, When Death Rode the Rails, Noel Brooks, The Windows of Wesley, Stories Stage Center: A History of Oklahoma Storytelling and Oklahoma Bad Girls. 

Her "UFO SKIES SERIES" includes Sooner Saucers, Sooner Saucers 2, UFOS Over Oklahoma, What Is That?, 1947: Those Saucy Saucers and 1965: The Summer of the Saucers.

She has several fictional works in process as well.

She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.

UPCOMNG LIBRARY PROGRAMS -NOVEMBER

 November!

This program is made possible through the Oklahoma Route 66 Revitalization Grant. We extend our sincere appreciation to the Oklahoma Route 66 Commission and to the Oklahoma legislators who champion Route 66 revitalization across our state.

SUMMER READING ADDS NEW ADVENTUURES, 6 p.m. programs for all ages!

Thursday afternoons kids will enjoy the traditional Summer Reading Program fun bu this year - due to the Route 66 Grant - the Library is able to offer another program that evening at 6 p.m. 

Call to reserve your space for any of these programs! Children must be attended.

Visions of the Future, May 23, 3 p.m., Stroud Public Library

 Designed for children and teens but all may enjoy this fun way of seeing and setting goals!