Nearby sites of interest...

If we have time we would like to visit a Hennepin County Library branch: www.hclib.org/locations. Another nearby site of interest is author Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Bookstore located in downtown Minneapolis, not far from the Big Read orientation site: http://birchbarkbooks.com/. Her newest book Plague of Doves has been selected as a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and is the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards winner for novel and short story. It looks like we will have plenty to do on our short trip!