Adults

What incredible natural features are found underground in Wisconsin?

If you’re in search of a family adventure, here’s your opportunity to find out what may be under the ground in our state. Author Doris Green will tell us about Wisconsin’s most accessible caves, former mines and other subterranean treasures.

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library. Copies of Doris’ books will be available for purchase and signing.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.

Meet Jane and Tom Opps, who have hiked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago. The couple traveled the entire length from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostella, Spain. The Camino pilgrimage has been travelled by pilgrims for over 1,000 years and is said to bring great physical, mental and spiritual growth to all who travel its routes. Come and hear Jane and Tom’s story of adventure.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.

“Do you really know why you think the way you do?"

Robert Brust PE, SE, is a structural engineer who has worked on some of the country’s more well-known buildings. Brust began his lengthy search for human understanding after a tragedy: his son died, causing him to reexamine all of his assumptions about how best to live. What he learned, from looking at problem solving and life from an analytical way – from an engineer’s perspective is the premise for his book.

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library. Copies of David’s books will be available for purchase and signing.

Meet Inga, a passionate dairy farmer, gardener, cooking enthusiast, and host of the PBS series Around the Farm Table for an entertaining and educational cooking demonstration. Inga will be showing us how to make a Green Swiss Chard Tart.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.

David Benjamin started his first novel at the age of nine, reading chapters aloud to his classmates at St. Mary’s School in Tomah, Wisconsin. Known for his witty, offbeat writing style, he splits his time between homes in Madison and Paris, France. Credits include journalist, editor, ghostwriter, novelist, satirist, essayist, columnist, travel writer and theater critic.

Join us to hear this talented writer tell stories from a humorous and fun perspective.

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library. Copies of David’s books will be available for purchase and signing.

Shirley Merker will show us the techniques to make a cute card.

All materials will be provided. Seats are limited, so please stop in, call or register online to reserve your spot.

Registration: Register

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.

Despite all of your best efforts, you can’t seem to get control over your weight.

You head to the gym, spend hours on that treadmill, cut your calories or get back to counting points. Yet the pounds just don’t come off. In your frustration, you fall back into old eating habits and may even gain more weight. Maybe it is time to try something different. Come learn just what the secret is to losing weight.

Area voters are invited to attend an open forum to hear from candidates running for seats on the Village of DeForest Board.

• Each candidate will present an opening statement of two minutes.
• A question-and-answer period will follow with prepared questions. The moderator will pose other questions submitted by the audience in written form. Candidates will have two minutes to answer each question.
• As time allows, the moderator will pose questions from the audience.

Moderator: David Grove