Events

We will travel first to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from May 27 to May 31, 2025, then on to Belem, Brazil, from May 31 to June 6.--- Initial applications due November 3, 2024

Join us for our monthly service activity.  Second Harvest needs our help sorting and dividing donated food items that are distributed to food pantries throughout South Central Wisconsin.  The need is greater than ever.  If you cannot volunteer, your cash contributions are also appreciated so that they can purchase important perishable items such as milk.

Monday, September 15  And now, a novel set in 1930s Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson (2019), 308 pp.  41 of 55 copies available. "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's ...

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11:30 AM, Meeting at the Green Lantern in McFarland  If It’s Friday, Then It Must Be Fish Fry in Wisconsin! A combined biking an lunch event. For lunch, we will meet at the Green Lantern Restaurant on Lake Waubesa, famous for their Friday Fish Fry.  Our club will have a private downstairs room. Most menu ...

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Open Doors for Refugees invites you to their free community picnic.  You can join a potluck picnic at the Olin Park Pavilion.   This free event will feature family friendly activities, delicious food, Live music and the performance of the Attan, Afghanistan's national dance.   Read more about what is planned on the Open Doors ...

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2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, Wednesday, June 25, 2025 It's that time again! Our next Second Harvest Foodbank volunteer day is Wednesday June 25 from 12:30 - 3:30

NOTE____ NOW A ZOOM!!!!!   The Optimist’s Daughter - Eudora Welty (1972), 180 pp. 15 copies in the library system. The people of Mount Salus Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva.  He was a quiet solid reassuring figure.  The ten years after his first wife's death he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay.   ...

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We are meeting at Cafe Hollander in the Hilldale shopping mall.   They have a wide range of food available.   We plan to gather in their outside dining area weather permitting.   Please RSVP to Gail Holmes by September 4.    

After two months of free-range reading (it’s been fun!), we will meet in PERSON. Maureen Kind’s home 5901 Mayhill Dr. Madison We look forward to discussing The Hundred-Foot Journey, and to hearing about everyone’s summer adventures. Autumn approaches! The Hundred-Foot Journey - Richard C. Morais (2008), 245

Our volunteer day at Second Harvest Food Bank will be Wednesday, September 24. Second Harvest provides food support to thousands of families, seniors, and kids across southwestern Wisconsin through a network of 300 partner agencies and programs.