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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Genesee District Library is celebrating receiving the NEA Big Read grant of $14,000 for 2016-2017, selecting Jack London’s
<i>The Call of the Wild. </i>Our kick-off event will feature Creek Stewart, survivalist expert from the Weather Channel’s
<i>Fat Guy in the Woods, </i>speaking at two branches on Saturday, September 24th<i>.
</i>Keynote addresses include Michael Oakes, Jack London expert and impersonator from California, along with national wolf and dog experts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">We are grateful for our partnership with two local school districts (Davison Middle School and Grand Blanc West Middle School) that have committed to having
 their 6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> grade classes read <i>The Call of the Wild</i> in the fall. Another partnership with the Flint Youth Theater means that over 800 students will engage with the text through reading, hearing and experiencing a theatrical
 interpretation of the classic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">So, yes … we’re celebrating on this lovely Thursday in May. And learning how to howl like a “dog gone wild.”<br>
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ARH-WOOOO!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Eileen Button<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Genesee District Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Community Relations Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">(810) 230-9613<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;background:white;font-weight:normal">“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer
 midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;background:white;font-weight:normal">~ Jack London,<i> The Call of the Wild</i></span></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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