SPRING LAKE - Shipwreck hunter Valerie van Heest will be at Spring Lake District Library on Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. to tell the tale of the sinking of the Thomas Hume. May 21st is the 121st anniversary of the wreck of the Thomas Hume, a lumber schooner owned by Charles Hackley and Thomas Hume of Muskegon. The ship’s crew of seven sailed out of Chicago, encountered a storm and never arrived at her destination, the port of Muskegon.  Van Heest, a member of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates, will discuss how MSRA’s underwater archaeological investigation has helped to solve the mystery of the lost ship. Learn how the crew of the Thomas Hume lived, worked, and died on the Lake Michigan.

Ellen Trumbo and Chris Protas met in New York City while studying painting at The New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture in the Greenwich Village area of lower Manhattan.  While living together in Brooklyn, an opportunity came up to move to Grand Haven Michigan in 2010. 

Both Ellen and Chris have traveled extensively to study painting; Ellen has spent time in Paris studying at the Louvre and has traveled the country sides of Italy.  Chris has been to the Czech Republic, France and all throughout Italy, including Naples and Pompeii. They have brought back a lot from these places, and also from living and studying in New York, that they put into their paintings.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. -- Students from Lake Hills and Mary A. White Elementary schools gathered over 400 books to collaborate with Loutit District Library’s (LDL) current reading program.

Every year, Grand Haven elementary students collect books for the schools' annual March is Reading Month book drive. The schools then donate them to a community organization. This year’s book drive recipient is LDL. The Library will use the books for the Prime Time Family Reading Time program that runs through May 21.