This month at the Medina Community Library

April 17 is the first day to sign up for the Adult/YA Reading Challenge; sign ups will continue until May 13.
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Growing Up In Bandera

As often happens when I wake up on a really cold morning, my mind races back in time to earlier life here in Bandera. To say things are easier now, weather-wise, would be putting it lightly. Back in the day, central heat would have best been explained as everyone sitting in a circle around a wood burning stove in Granddaddy Kindla's kitchen.
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Sublime Rambling
My Testimony

My mother was of Jewish descent through her mother’s mother. However, my grandmother and my mother both accepted Jesus when young and married gentiles, and I was raised in the church. I accepted Jesus and was baptized when I was 9 years old. My dad was a Christian and loved the Jewish people. My mom taught me about the Holocaust. My grandmother told me the koshering she and Mom did came from her mother and grandmother, and how “different and special” they were.
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Six Vets Over Texas

What a fun day in the Big City! The VA invited My Future Husband (I’ll figure out a name later) to come for a glorious day in their Indoor Park. Gates opened at 8:30 a.m., so we had to hitch up the Black Cadillac Stallion early for a gallop to town.
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Paul Petersen Ponders
Dallas Cowboys are the masters of mediocrity

The Dallas Cowboys have been eliminated from the playoffs. The final nail was the Philadelphia Eagles’ 29 to 18 win over the Washington Commanders on Dec. 20.
Jerry Jones, in the ultimate Captain Obvious observation, said they’d use the final games this season to evaluate their coaching staff.
Ya THINK, Jerry?!
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The Bull Pen

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This month at the Bandera Kronkosky Public Library

The Bandera Kronkosky Public Library featured artist of the month is Caroline Dechert, whose work in pastel, acrylic and watercolor will be on display.
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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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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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