Adults

Joan & Bette Bette & Joan is an original off-Broadway one-woman musical about the tumultuous relationship between two Academy Award winning icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Involved in a real and manufactured feud for most of their screen careers, their story is rendered via 14 original songs as well as live performance.

A Q&A will conclude the event.

Co-hosted by the DeForest Area Historical Society, the Center, and the Library.

This library outreach program is open to the community.

A memory screen is a wellness tool that helps identify possible changes in memory.

It creates a baseline so future changes can be monitored. Specialists from the Dane County Aging and Disability Resource Center will provide free 10-minute memory screenings at the Library in Room D. You can also get information about memory, memory clinics, brain health and local resources.

Registration - Limit of 1 person for each 10 minute time slot:

A memory screen is a wellness tool that helps identify possible changes in memory.

It creates a baseline so future changes can be monitored. Specialists from the Dane County Aging and Disability Resource Center will provide free 10-minute memory screenings at the Library in Room C. You can also get information about memory, memory clinics, brain health and local resources.

Registration - Limit of 1 person for each 10 minute time slot:

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.