{"id":86061,"date":"2025-08-16T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86061\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:11:09","slug":"the-big-read-returns-to-lewis-and-clark-library-thanks-to-20k-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86061\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Read returns to Lewis and Clark Library thanks to $20k grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA \u2014 The Lewis and Clark Library is one of just 62 non-profits across the country to receive a Big Read Initiative grant.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will support a series of community programs centered around this year\u2019s big read selection, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by bestselling science writer Mary Roach.<\/p>\n<p>The program is possible thanks to a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>To me and staff here at the library, it is a recognition that the National Endowment for the Arts does good work throughout the country,\u201d said John Finn, the director of Lewis and Clark Library.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755306669_168_\" alt=\"Fuzz book\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Madelyn Heath, MTN News<\/p>\n<p>        The library will be distributing free copies of Mary Roach&#8217;s book, Fuzz on September 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those programs scheduled throughout October include a guest speech by author Mary Roach and book discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Finn says funding like this means a lot for the library and the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it means a couple of things: that we can do programs throughout the county, that everybody who participates will read the same book because it is all about shared reading experiences,\u201d said Finn.<\/p>\n<p>Books paid for by the grant will be distributed at the library and September 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELENA \u2014 The Lewis and Clark Library is one of just 62 non-profits across the country to receive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,159,10095,59395,3465],"class_list":{"0":"post-86061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-funding","11":"tag-grant","12":"tag-lewis-and-clark-county","13":"tag-library"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}