To the Library and Beyond Thanks so much Jeno Hankerson for your enthusiastic visit. If the young ones don’t remember anything else they will certainly remember to “never, never, ever, ever, never, ever” let the flag touch the ground! Summer’s not over until there’s music in the park and the Idaho County Fair comes to town. Both are coming up in August. The Prairie Community Band free concert in City Park is Tuesday, August 11th at 6:30 pm. Bring your family, friends, visiting relatives or neighbors. Bring a picnic dinner, lawn chairs and eagerness to enjoy nearly free dessert refreshments provided by the band and the library. We’ll be busy baking goodies despite the heat, because what’s an evening of lively American music without something sweet to eat! See you there and thank you for helping spread the word about the concert. Pat Gehring has recently read a fascinating book about Hitler’s plot during WWII to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin during a 1943 conference held in Tehran. Tehran at the time was neutral about the war making it a natural location for spy, counterspy & other intelligence organizations to set up shop. Much is revealed about the wide distrust from within organizations and of enemies. Pat found it interesting that criminals, drunks, drug addicts and others were not abashed by hiring on to do the work for whichever side paid the most at the time. She says this 1967, & reissued in 1991, book by the Hungarian author, Laslo Havas, is a good one to learn little-known sobering facts about this war in particular, and wartime in general. The book’s full title is Hitler’s Plot to Kill the Big Three: The True Story of the Nazi Attempt to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Reading fiction is a meld between the mind of the reader and the writer. It’s also a meld between the mind of the reader and the book’s characters. Keep on reading! Frances Conklin
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