This month at the Medina Library

Early Childhood Learn, Grow, Eat & Go Program will launch a four-week series about plants and gardens beginning Monday, April 3, at 10:30 a.m. The program will be taught to 4 and 5 year olds. Weekly class topics include plant needs and plant parts, seeds and roots, stems and leaves, and flowers and fruits. Make reservations with the library.
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Believe It or Not

The other day, My Future Husband (who can see now) popped up with what he considered an interesting fact after reading it on the Internet. His revelation involved Eyebrow Mites. That’s one weird fact I really don’t need to know. But let’s jump right in, anyway. 
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See the latest Caddo Kuntree, by Larry Haddad

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Growing Up In Bandera

The Bantex theater was centrally located up on Main Street, making it easy to walk to from anywhere in town. It had a concession stand which was accessible through a door on the outside without going into the lobby. It was made closer than the five block distance from home because of all the empty lots back in the day providing shortcuts to get a double dip ice cream cone. My friend and classmate Paula Adams was usually behind the counter in those days.
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Keep in Beat with the Bandera Library

Swing by the library some time during April to see the featured Artist of the Month Laura M. Levy. Laura is passionate about nature photography and been focusing her lens on the birds, butterflies, insects and plants of the Lost Maples State Park. She recalls a bird walk through Lost Maples as a life changing experience. It was on this walk attempting to capture birds to identify them later. However, it avalanched into an obsession.
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Frontier Tales
Caldwell, Kansas – Cattle Town

When the war between the states broke out, Texans found themselves in conflict with one another. While many supported seceding from the Union and joining the Confederate states, there were Texans who did not support this arrangement. Among the loyalists were members of a little colony that had been established along the Blanco River in Blanco County.
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Sailing the Pacific
How the Manila galleon shaped international trade

In March of 1521, Portugese explorer Fernando de Magallanes docked off the coast of Cebu in the Philippines, achieving the first European navigation from the Atlantic Ocean to Asia. The same year, Spanish General Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, expanding the Spanish-owned territory from California to South America.
Divided by the Pacific Ocean, the Spaniards needed a way to commute between their newly-established sovereignty. Thus was the birth of the Manila galleon.
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The Buzzard's Roost, by Juan Meauxtime

Featuring Lefty and Riff

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A Walk Down History Lane
with the Bandera Natural History Museum
How Juan de O'Donojú y O’Ryan helped end the Mexican War for Independence

Mexico's independence from Spain took a decade of war. None expected a Spanish general of Irish descent to play an integral role in achieving peace.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Quetzalcoatlus
Life-size replica on display at the Bandera Natural History Museum

Taller than a giraffe, wider than a city bus, and able to soar over tall buildings in a single bound, the Quetzalcoatlus (pronounced Ket-sol-coh-aht-lus) ruled the skies about 80 million years ago.
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