<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inner Space to Outer Space: The Great Lakes' Contribution to Space Exploration & Research</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Great Lakes have served as a training ground throughout the history of aviation. Nineteenth-century balloon ascensions, early military and civilian aircraft development, the quest to break the sound barrier, and rocket launches all occurred on the lakes. An assortment of objects, both human-made and natural, have also fallen from space into the lakes.</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join the Alpena County Library's Special Collections Department and Wayne R. Lusardi, State Maritime Archaeologist on Thursday, January 14 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm to hear some of the stories of how the inland seas relate to outer space!</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This program is in collaboration with Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It will be live-streamed via Facebook and is appropriate for all ages. No registration required.</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information visit the Library’s website </span><a href="http://www.alpenalibrary.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.alpenalibrary.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or Facebook page. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"> </p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><b><br></b></i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><b>Jessica Luther (she/her)</b></i></font><div><address><span style="font-family:helvetica">Assistant
            Director</span></address>
        <address><span style="font-family:helvetica"><b>Alpena
            County George N. Fletcher Public Library</b></span></address>
        <address><span style="font-family:helvetica">2682 US Highway 23 South </span></address><address><span style="font-family:helvetica">Alpena, MI 49707</span></address>
        <address><span style="font-family:helvetica"><a href="mailto:jluther@alpenalibrary.org" target="_blank">jluther@alpenalibrary.org</a></span></address>
        <address><span style="font-family:helvetica">989.419.4236</span></address><address><span style="font-family:helvetica"><br></span></address><address><font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.</font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:normal">"-</span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Mary Harris Jones</span></address><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>