MGG Calendar Blast- May 2010

As you consider how to fill your calendar for the upcoming month - don't forget about MGG in the Libraries programming. This programming is designed for ease of use and is free to your library! Below, we've highlighted key dates and holidays in May, and offered suggestions for tie-in programs.

May

Saturday, May 8th: V-E Day is declared

Programming Ideas:

• Bus Tour to the MGG Exhibit in St. Paul

Get your community on board for a day trip to the Minnesota Historical Society to see the Minnesota's Greatest Generation exhibit. Don't forget to book a History Player or leave time to visit the MHS library.

• Trivia Contest Kit

Celebrate the end of the war in Europe with a spirited trivia contest covering the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

     • Film Festival Kit

Hear the stories of those that survived the war and how they continued to inspire those around tem with innovation, creativity, and good works with the film festival "Looking Back: A Lifetime of Stories."

Sunday, May 9th: Mother's Day

Programming Ideas:

• Film Festival Kit- Honor the women of the Greatest Generation by showing the film festival "Women of the Greatest Generation."
• Have a Mother/Daughter Craft Afternoon
  Check out the Wartime Craft Kit to make Scrap Fabric Pins, the Growing Up in the 1930s Craft Kit for Clothespin Dolls, or the Boom! Family Day Kit to create Vinyl Clutch Purses.
• Host a Performance by Andrea Leap and Friends- Listen to the songs of WWII women with Leap's show "Songs She Sang Back Home."

Saturday, May 15th: Armed Forces Day

Programming Ideas:

• Bus Tour to the MGG Exhibit in St. Paul
  Get your community on board for a day trip to the Minnesota Historical Society to see the Minnesota's Greatest Generation exhibit. Don't forget to book a History Player or leave time to visit the MHS library.

•  Film Festival Kit
   Honor those MGG members who fought by showing the film festival "WWII" that highlights the stories of Minnesotan's at war.

• Book one of the many speakers featured in the MGG Catalog who can speak to Minnesotan's experiences in WWII. 

May 29th- 31st: Memorial Day Weekend

Programming Ideas:

• Wartime in Minnesota Kit
  Offer a family friendly day honoring our WWII soldiers by offering educational activities, story times, and films about Minnesota's experience in the war. Consider collecting items or creating cards for current members of the armed forces as well!
• Feature books written about the WWII experience by Minnesota authors like:

Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen, fiction, 1946

Never So Young Again by Dan Brennan, fiction, 1946

Remembering the Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation by Thomas Saylor, nonfiction,   2007