Notes from YourMDL

Have you been working on your family genealogy project during the pandemic? Don't delay: through the end of 2021, Ancestry Library Edition is available to access at home from a link on the library homepage. Beginning in Jan., free access will continue to be available inside the library's physical building. If you have been using the mobile app OverDrive to ...

Important Update from Marshall District Library Marshall, Mich. – August 17, 2021 – Marshall District Library is preparing for the start of the school year with the rest of the community. This fall, library programming will be announced monthly to allow for flexibility and adaptability. Please visit the website event calendar for updates on September programs for all ages. Due ...

If you haven’t seen Sling Blade, you are soon to meet quite a unique protagonist. If you have, you’ll know that Billy Bob Thornton’s original character Karl Childers is like a disturbed cousin of Forrest Gump, with his chin jutting out and a gravelly voice (he sounds like he’s been gargling broken glass) slurring out southern slang and broken sentences ...

About halfway through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a shaggy-looking man approaches the Polanski residence on Cielo Drive. Jay Sebring (Emile Hirsch), friend of director Roman Polanski and his rising star wife Sharon Tate, answers the door. “Who is it, Jay?” asks Sharon from the hallway, played in the film by Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie. “It’s ...

Ernest and Celestine is a charming French and Belgian animated film which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars in 2014, ultimately losing to a little movie you may have heard of called Frozen. Originally released in 2012, the movie was dubbed into English under the production company GKIDS the following year. This English language version features Forest ...

Marshall District Library’s website now includes an online archive where you can find a growing collection of photos and documents capturing Marshall’s rich history. Select "Research" at the top of the page and then "Local History Archive & Yearbooks" ...

Secret of Nimh is a 1982 animated film directed by Don Bluth. It was written for the screen by Bluth (as well as his long-time collaborators Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy, and Will Finn), and adapted from the classic childrens’ book by Robert C. O’brien titled Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. It tells the story of a widowed mouse ...

Room is a 2015 drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Frank) and written for the screen by Emma Donahue. It is adapted from Donahue’s own book of the same name, released in 2010. The film stars Brie Larson as “Ma” and Jacob Tremblay as her son Jack ...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Legend of Tarzan) and written for the screen by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, in her screenwriting debut. It’s a spin-off of the Harry Potter film series and stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything,) ...

Spirited Away is an animated film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Released in Japan in 2001 with an English-language version soon following in 2002, it tells the story of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, separated from her parents after taking a shortcut in the woods en route to their new home ...