>From Sue Irvine of the Michigan Genealogical Council... Check out this article from the Lansing State Journal. This is in today's paper, front page. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090719/NEWS06/907190625/1102/NEWS06 This is certainly a day that none of us have wanted to see. The people in Florida managed to save their State Library with a Hands Around the Library. Please mark your calendars. Please share with your genealogy friends and colleagues. *Watch for Hands around the Library! Thursday August 13th a proposed date.* Please - everyone RUN- don't walk to your local legislator's office and DEMAND the library be saved. Also WRITE to the governor. Tell your friends to write. Email this news item and information about the governor's executive order #36-2009. Our legislators have only 60 days to veto her order.... or it takes effect automatically. She's already dissolved HAL (Dept of History Arts & Libraries). If her order #36-2009 is not stopped, the 180+ years of collecting Michigan History materials will be lost. Never to return.... The Library of Michigan is the 10th Largest Collection of Family History research materials in the United States! Jan Sedore, President Sunfield Historical Society 13307 N Wheaton Road Grand Ledge, MI 48837 jansedore@dishmail.net