Flat River Community Library

Episode 15: Goldilocks and the Three Pole Barn Apartments: The Home Ownership Edition

Posted by Stef Reed, Library Director on 28 June 24

June is Home Ownership Month, and we’re celebrating it by talking to a set of people who eat and breathe housing and all its facets. We kick it off with Kamey Krum-Howe, newly back at FRCL from other adventures and full of her own interesting home history tales. Then we sit down with Mike Adams from Montcalm Habitat for Humanity, local realtor Andrea Belding, and Larry Moss from Greenville City Council and City Planning Commission. We dig deep into our very homey topic, with everything from the housing shortage to the idiosyncrasies of finding and maintaining your forever home. We talk about ways people are working to improve options for safe and affordable homes in our community, and each of our topsy-turvy journeys with pole barn living, city homes vs country homes, tree infestations, bats, basement floods and so much more. If you’ve ever lived indoors, this episode for you. Take a tour, then join us on the Front Porch!

Andrea Belding

Montcalm Habitat for Humanity

Greenville City Council

Greenville councilperson addressing affordable housing options – The Daily News

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Episode 14: Home School and Love Languages with the Quigleys

Posted by Stef Reed, Library Director on 06 June 24

This week we celebrate the kick-off of Summer Reading by chatting with two members of one of our biggest reading families, the Quigleys! I’ve been talking books and everything else with Amanda Quigley and her EIGHT (yes, 8) kids for 7 years, back when we were both still in Belding. Amanda is a homeschooling coach, a Cannonsville Critters volunteer and animal lover, and a strong advocate for open discussion about mental health, neurodivergence, and pretty much everything else. Her daughter, Hannah, joins us, and we talk about the happy chaos that is the Quigley household. We are also joined by Miss Tiffany, and we get into everything we can look forward to this summer, and our proposal to refresh the Black Field property until a beautiful new performance and natural education space. Get comfortable with us on the front porch!