Book Club

Saturday, October 4 – time, location TBD

Contemporary insight into our justice system, from a brilliant lawyer who works to make it a better one.  Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Bryan Sevenson (2014)  336 pp. 53 of 60 copies are available in the library

Second Harvest Food Bank Volunteer Activity

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.

Dining on the 6th

October 6 we will meet at the Garver Feed Mill for an outdoor patio lunch at Ian’s Pizza.  Ians’a offers chess or pepperoni slices for $4.50 and signature pizzas for $5.50 a slice.   Register with Gail Holmes by October 5th.

Dining on the 6th

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.

 

 

Book Club

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

Open Doors for Refugees

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 for Refugees website https://opendoorsforrefugees.org/.  More information about ways you can contribute in this month’s newsletter.  The newsletter also has information about how you can sign up.

Second Harvest

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

Dining on the 6th

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 items cost about $10.95.  There is a 3.5% charge for use of credit card.

You may either cycle or drive to McFarland

CYCLING 

People interested in cycling have a long and short option. The long option starts at the parking lot of the Wyndham Garden Hotel 2969 Cahill Main, Fitchburg.  Departing at 10:15.  The short option is 2.6 miles starting at the west parking lot of the Lussier Family Heritage Center 3101 Lake Farm Road.  Be ready to leave by 11:00.    For all details, see the newsletter and recent email messages.

DRIVING

From the beltline get onto Stoughton Road/Hwy 51 and go south.  Take the first exit just before the bridge on to Terminal Drive.  Follow Terminal Drive to Siggelkow Road.

Please contact Vivian Norton by email, vjoan@icloud.com or text 563-508-1323 by Tuesday June 3 if you are interested.  Let her know if you are driving or biking and whether you are taking the long biking route or the short route.

Book Club

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 got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers.”

Book Club

Monday, August 18-  Hoping for an in person meeting–  location and time to be announced 
Contemporary insight into our justice system, from a brilliant lawyer who works however he can to make it a better one.
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption – Bryan Stevenson (2014), 336 pp.  54 of 60 copies are available.
“Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship–and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.”