Lots to Do in Lynden

Mark Your Calendars!

Lynden Farmers Parade

July 3, 10:30am

Downtown Lynden

Don’t miss this eclectic menagerie of cars, bands, tractors, trucks, and horses salute the Agriculture Industry of Whatcom County!

Saturdays, June-September • Heritage Park

100% of the products at the Lynden Farmers Market are made or grown in Whatcom County—making it easy to shop local, eat in season, and support your community! www.lyndenfarmersmarket.com

10am-2pm

Find Waldo

Downtown Lynden!

Lynden Farmers Market

July 1-31 • Downtown Lynden

Spot the famous fellow in the striped shirt and black-rimmed specs by visiting businesses in downtown Lynden through the month of July. Grab your passport at Village Books and Paper Dreams1

Monday, July 31, 2pm - Find Waldo in Lynden Celebration

We’ll play games, give out prizes to those who participated in the multistore search, eat treats, and find Waldo hiding in our store! Come in your red stripes and glasses, and ready to have a good time!

July 14-15 • Downtown Lynden

Celebrating North America’s largest raspberry harvest, the Northwest Raspberry Festival includes activities throughout the town including 3-on-3 basketball tournament, classic car show, community salmon barbecue, live music and entertainment on two stages and food and crafts vendors. Don’t miss the famous $2 raspberry sundaes and be sure to pop into Village Books and Paper Dreams to check out our collection of raspberry themed gifts!

Northwest Raspberry Festival

August 10-19 • Lynden Fair Grounds

Did someone say moo-wich? Poffertjes? Head to Lynden and enjoy 10 full days of carnival rides, grandstand entertainment, a variety farm animals, exibits, shopping, delicious food, and so much more. Make great memories with your friends and family. See nwwafair.com for a schedule and details.

Hands of Time : A Watchmaker’s History

by Rebecca Struthers

available in June, hardcover, Harper

Hands of Time is a journey through watchmaking history, from the earliest attempts at timekeeping, to the breakthrough in engineering that gave us the first watch, to today—where the timepieces hold cultural and historical significance beyond what its first creators could have imagined. Acclaimed watchmaker Rebecca Struthers uses the most important watches throughout history to explore their attendant paradigm shifts in how we think about time, and how we think about our own humanity.

In the Blood : How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the U.S. Army

by Charles Barber

available now, hardcover, Grand Central Publishing

The tragedy of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 reinforced the need for a treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong discovered that zeolite had blood - clotting properties, they brought it to the military’s attention. The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. The Army, however, had two products of its own being developed and set out to smear QuikClot’s reputation. In the Blood recounts this little - known David - and - Goliath story of corruption, greed, and power within the military—and the devastating consequences of unchecked institutional arrogance.

Cultural Criticism To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick–and How We Can Fight Back

by Alden Wicker

available in June, hardcover, G.P. Putnam’s Sons

An eye-opening look at the clothing industry and the harmful by-product cycle that stems from that. Wicker shows us the concerning yet empowering truths behind This industry. this is the first book I have read where the research parts felt just as page-turning as the rest! –Maddie

Last Secret of the Secret Annex : The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal

by Joop Van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn

available now, hardcover, Simon & Schuster

A wonderful analysis of the network of people who helped protect Anne Frank and her family and a look into the one who betrayed them, this book offers a new perspective of Bep’s heroism that was thoughtfully brought to light. This book is in my top 10 reads of the year! –Maddie

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

by Melissa L. Sevigny

available now, hardcover, W.W. Norton & Co.

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.

Read with PRIDE!

P.S. Burn This Letter Please : The Fabulous and Fraught Birth of Modern Drag, in the Queens’ Own Words

edited by Craig Olsen hardcover, available in August, Mobius

Decades before Stonewall, queer folk occupied the margins of society. When a cache of their letters were discovered, these individuals were given a voice where they had traditionally been silenced. The letters they wrote bear witness to a time when gay community was hard to find. Blending social, political and cultural history with memoir, this book is an unforgettable and deeply moving encounter with a generation of incredible survivors and a necessary account of how modern drag culture was born.

What the Greeks Did For Us

by Tony Spawforth

available now, hardcover, Yale University Press

Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks’ spell. Paying attention to the huge breadth and variety of Hellenic influence, this book paints an essential portrait of the ancient world’s living legacy—considering to whom it matters, and why.

The Rediscovery of America : Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

by Ned Blackhawk

available now, hardcover, Yale University Press

The Summer of 1876 : Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

by Chris Wimmer

available now, hardcover, St. Martin’s Press

The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James were all involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous—or infamous—moments of their lives. The Summer of 1876 weaves together the timelines of the events that made these men legends to demonstrate the overlapping context of their stories and to illustrate the historical importance of that summer, all layered with highlights of significant milestones in 1876: the inaugural baseball season of the National League; the final year of President Ulysses S. Grant’s embattled administration; the debut of an invention called the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell; the release of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and many more.

Gallop Toward the Sun : Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

by Peter Stark

available in August, hardcover, Random House Tecumseh’s brave stand was likely the last chance to protect Indigenous people from U.S. expansion—and prevent the upstart United States from becoming a world power. In this fast-paced narrative—with its bloody battles, high-stakes diplomacy, and sharply drawn characters—Peter Stark, author of Astoria, brings this pivotal moment to life. Pre-order your copy today!

Check out the Village Books

Armchair Historians Book Group

Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non - Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. He looks at the beginnings of the American Revolution in response to Native affairs, the legacy of the Civil War including militia attacks on native lands and the recalibration of land, and 20th and 21st century activism. This is a crucial part of the re-visioning of our history. Tickets

We meet the second Monday of each month at 6pm in the Fairhaven Village Books Readings Gallery. See page 78 for more!

Tuesdays, July 11 - September 12

6 - 8 PM

San Juan Cruises

Bellingham/Alaska Ferry Terminal