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Miss Alexa welcomes all preschoolers along with their caregivers to come and enjoy a fun flick in the library meeting room!

Create poetry by redacting (obscuring or blacking out) words from a previously published work. You'll get the creative juices flowing as you find and reveal hidden meanings in a printed page.

If this planned activity doesn't interest you, there are plenty of other things that might, including micro:bit hands-on, our new Lego Wall, cardboard construction, magnet wall challenge, wind tunnel and many more. Come and explore!

Free for Members
Non-Members: $8 Adults, Students/Seniors: $5

Explore the fascinating world of AI -- artificial intelligence! With an assist from AI, transform a few simple words or phrases into impressive verse. We'll experiment with a variety of AI poetry generators.

If the planned activity doesn't interest you, there are plenty of other things that might, including micro:bit hands-on, our new Lego Wall, cardboard construction, magnet wall challenge, wind tunnel and many more. Come and explore!

Free for Members
Non-Members: $8 Adults, Students/Seniors: $5

Try your hand at stamping -- a craft where paint, ink or dye is applied to a stamp to make decorative images on paper or fabric. We'll make our own stamps from a variety of materials you can probably find in your home.

If the planned activity doesn't interest you, there are plenty of other things that might, including micro:bit hands-on, our new Lego Wall, cardboard construction, magnet wall challenge, wind tunnel and many more. Come and explore!

Free for Members
Non-Members: $8 Adults, Students/Seniors: $5

Sending secret messages isn't just for spies! Make your own invisible ink so you can write and reveal secret messages. We'll look at several recipes and different ways to hide and reveal messages.

If the planned activity doesn't interest you, there are plenty of other things that might, including micro:bit hands-on, our new Lego Wall, cardboard construction, magnet wall challenge, wind tunnel and many more. Come and explore!

Free for Members
Non-Members: $8 Adults, Students/Seniors: $5

As part of our 150 Years of Library Service in Dunn County celebration, join Professors of English, Dr. Lopa Basu and BJ Hollars http://www.bjhollars.com/ , for Writing What We Don't Say Aloud: Grief on the Page https://menomonielibrary.org/bj-hollars-author-visit/ . The event will be a conversation about BJ's' new book, Year of Plenty http://www.bjhollars.com/shop.html . It will be held in the library meeting room

Thanks to The Library Foundation, the 150 Years of Library Service in Dunn County committee and Dragon Tale Books for sponsoring this event.

Thursday, April 4, 6pm, Arlyn Colby will present on the railroads of the Menomonie area, using a series of photographs. He loves audience questions and interaction.
About the Author: Arlyn is a retired high school mathematics teacher and coach. With his interest in railroad history, he has written 7 books and is currently working on the 8th. The books are The Chippewa Valley Line, The Spring Valley Line, The Ellsworth Line, The Blueberry Line, The Cornell Line, The Park Falls Line, and The Mondovi Line. The books will be available for purchase.
Join in person or via Zoom.

Saturday, April 6, 2-3:30pm, Meet artist Jessie Lawson and learn about her many cats and creatures. They will be in the bookstore the whole month of April.
Artist statement:
In my mid-fifties I took early retirement and turned to art. During the next 25 years I exhibited in solo and group shows, co-owned two art galleries, and taught workshops in collage and mixed media. My art has always been connected to all the reading and teaching I've done, drawing on images from famous paintings, folk and fairy tales, and other material that portrays fantastic beings. I'm still busy making fantastic creatures: painting them, collaging them, molding and sewing them, and doing whatever else I can think of to bring them into this world.
See my work online at:
https://www.instagram.com/jessielawson66
https://www.facebook.com/FlyingCatArthouse
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FlyingCatArthouse

The music has been cancelled due to COVID. Mary Butze & Greg Beaner are acoustic guitarists.

Thursday, April 18, 6-7pm, Megen Hines, the City of Menomonie Environmental Program Coordinator, will lead us on a recycling journey. She'll provide us with the state of recycling and answer all of your questions about what can and can't be recycled. What about those fruit clam shells, lids from glass jars or those toothpaste tubes that say they can be recycled?
In Person or via Zoom.

Thursday, April 25, 6-7pm, Jeanne Anderson will provide the history of Happy Island and Old Meridean.
The Chippewa River in Dunn County is host to an island that once was the home of a logging town, called Meridean, and eight farms. Originally about 1800 acres, the island is now a forest plantation owned by Dunn County.
The book, Where the Lilacs Grow: The Story of Happy Island and Old Meridean, tells the history of the island and the people who lived there through stories and pictures.
In person or via livestream

May 1, 6-7pm. Bring your favorite poem or a poem you'd like to discuss. Poetry Month.
In person or via Zoom.

July 16, 6-7pm - Every City Is Every Other City, by John McFetridge. c2021. (Gordon Stewart Mystery #1) Setting: Canada.
In Person or via Zoom.
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September 17, 6-7pm - The Nanny, by Gilly MacMillan, c2019. Standalone. Setting: Manor house in Wiltshire, England.
In Person or via Zoom.
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October 2, 6-7pm. We will discuss One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fiction; Colombian author for Hispanic Heritage Month.
In Person or via Zoom.

October 15, 6-7pm - Reykjavik, by Ragnar Jonasson and Katrin Jakobsdottir. c2023. Nordic Noir Standalone. Setting: Iceland 1956 and 1986.
In Person or via Zoom.
See full schedule.

November 6, 6-7pm. We will discuss Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Fiction; Laguna Pueblo descent author for Native American Heritage Month.
In Person or via Zoom.

November 19, 6-7pm - The River We Remember, by William Kent Krueger, c2023. Standalone. Setting: Jewel, Minnesota in 1958.
In Person or via Zoom.
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