Join us for our monthly service activity.  Each month we sort, repackage and in general give our partners at Second Harvest a hand.  Second Harvest distributed over 26 million pounds of food to Food Banks across South Central Wisconsin in 2024.   The need is greater than ever.   If you can help or if you are willing to coordinate our efforts, please contact Gail Holmes.

Our next book will be Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin, with meeting to be held by zoom on Monday Dec 16 at 7:00.  The author was born and raised in Zambia, has worked in South Africa and Rwanda, and has written textbooks and children’s books in addition to her writing for adults.  The book centers on a Tanzanian woman who has moved her family to Rwanda, and on her extended family and friends and the baking business that she develops to help to support them.  Femina (South Africa) calls it “A wonderful, life-affirming novel…a funny, charming read filled with both the sadness and joy of Africa.”  The FF International book club is reading this for their December meeting.

Farm Boy by Tom Miller – Feb 17, unless we choose another date or time.  Possibly in person.   Tom has offered to do a reading from his book detailing his life growing up on a farm in North Dakota.   We are considering an afternoon meeting with Tom presenting.  Stay tuned for more or contact Marjie or Marian for more details.

Apeirogon by Callum McCann  will be the book for -January 20 7:00 by zoom

Our November gathering will be for lunch at noon at the famous Norwegian Norski Nook Restaurant and Bakery in DeForest.

Please register by Monday, November 4, with host Gail Holmes, phone 608 249-1846 or email glholmes@wisc.edu.Looking forward to a beautiful fall day for our enjoyment. As always, please plan to wear your name tag.

Incoming Open World program around the topic of Sustainable Energy.  Delegates arrive in Madison March 28.