The Macksville City Library will celebrate their 90th birthday from 3-6 p.m. on May 25. An Author Talk from 4-4:45 p.m. will be presented by Cheryl Unruh. 

Cheryl Unruh grew up in the tiny town of Pawnee Rock in central Kansas. There, she developed a fierce love of the open land and the Kansas sky. Much of her writing is about Kansas, about a sense of place. Cheryl graduated from Macksville High School in 1977.

For 11 years, Cheryl wrote a weekly column called “Flyover People” for The Emporia Gazette. She has twice received the Kansas Notable Book Award for her collections of Kansas essays, “Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State” (2010), and “Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays” (2014), both published by Quincy Press. Meadowlark Press published her collection of poetry, “Walking on Water” (2017), as well as her latest book, “Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town” (2021), a memoir. Cheryl is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction. She and her husband live in Emporia.

Come and go, or stay awhile, before and after the author talk. Peruse MHS yearbooks. Learn about the library’s 90 years of serving Macksville. Commemorative pens, refreshments, and a time to visit and reminisce.