Try beer and books at Library Foundation's Oktoberfest

Herzlich Willkommen! A hearty welcome from gate-keepers will summon the opening of Carson City Library Foundation's Oktoberfest from 11 a.m. to

6 p.m. Sept. 19 in the parking lot of the Carson City Library.

The Carson High Chamber Choir will open festivities. Their performance will be followed by The Schnitzel Groovers, playing traditional polka music until 2:30 p.m. Rock and blues will take to the stage from 3 p.m. to close with Blues Edge Band.

The Carson Nugget and Capital Beverages will sell brats, hot dogs, German potato salad, pretzels and sauerkraut, desserts, citrus-spiced Hefeweizen and harvest brews.

Friends of the Carson City Library will provide the Carson City version of die Budenstrasse, the famous fairway at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, by hosting their own "Buchenstrasse," a pathway of hundreds of gently used books for sale.

Area authors will have their published books available for sale and book signings. Log on to www.foundationccli

brary.org/oktoberfest for a complete listing of visiting authors.

Oktoberfest contests such as the Chicken Dance, ice cream-eating contest and stein-holding will add to the fun. Guests are invited to wear traditional lederhosen and dirndls, folk-style dress worn by women in Germany.

Regular operating hours for the library will be suspended that day, but the library will open two hours early on Sept. 18. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.