Closed for New YearsDecember 31, 2024 - January 1, 2025 from
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Crafty Corner
Crafty CornerJanuary 2, 2025 from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Bring your handwork, knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, or whatever it is you do for an informal evening of crafting and adult comradery. This month, we'll be meeting in the activity room.
Share your writing with other storytelling enthusiasts or join to make friends! Join the Creative Writers Club for ages 18+. We will share your favorite piece of writing and talk about why writing is our passion.
Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. DayJanuary 20, 2025See more details
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Library Board Meeting
Library Board MeetingJanuary 22, 2025 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmLocation:Community RoomSee more details
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Take a Break Book Club: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Take a Break Book Club: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy EganJanuary 23, 2025 from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The Roaring Twenties–the Jazz Age–has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.
Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he’d become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows – their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.
A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.
On the Same Page with Flora and Ulysses: Book Release
On the Same Page with Flora and Ulysses: Book ReleaseJanuary 27, 2025
Come in and get your free copy of Kate DiCamillo's award winning novel Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. The first 100 households can get theirs in our kick off kit with a reader's guide, activities and treats. After those kits are gone, we'll still pass out hundreds more books and we'll make copies of the activities and reader's guide as long as people want them. Make sure you get a calendar of all the activities going on through February that tie in with our On the Same Page book, and read it and discuss it with your friends and family.
Share your writing with other storytelling enthusiasts or join to make friends! Join the Creative Writers Club for ages 18+. We will share your favorite piece of writing and talk about why writing is our passion.
