Certain speakers just grab your attention and hold on to it. Tonight's library presenter is one of those lecturers. Author and Sierra Nevada native, Gary D. Noy, returned with more anecdotes from his newest book, Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues, with the focus of tonight being the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864, which brought the valley under government control and is considered the beginning of the California State Park system.