Adults

Photo Group - Try Something New

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

Be brave! Try to risk doing something photographically that you have not tried before. Study up and make it work out well.

Send 4–6 photographs to jhenze [at] deforestlibrary.org by November 16 and ask how to attend via Zoom.

This group is sponsored by the library and is open to the public. New members and visitors are always welcome!

Wisconsin's Gangster Past: Turning the Badger State into the Crime State - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

Registration - Register!

Put on your zoot suit and follow in the footsteps of America's most infamous gangsters as they turn Wisconsin into their personal crime vacation land.

Filled with deadly bank robberies, explosive shootouts, brutal murders, and daring kidnappings, Chad Lewis will point out the grisly locations where the gangster history will never die.

Against All Odds - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

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Listen as Héctor Colón shares the story of his life, beginning with his challenging childhood and his introduction to the boxing ring.

Follow the path to his Olympic trial fight, to his present-day work as President- CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, one of the Midwest’s largest non-profits. Be entertained by the anecdotes and be moved by the stories, as only Héctor can tell them.

The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

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Author David Benjamin has a lifetime of stories to tell!

Regarded as a masterwork of storytelling, David Benjamin knew he was a writer when he was in grade school. He started his first novel in elementary school at St. Mary’s School in Tomah. He adapted (and embellished he says) some of that experience in his memoir, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked.

Join us for a wonderful evening full of laughter and storytelling.

Mom's Gone Missing: When a Parent's Changing Life Upends Yours - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

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Meet author Susan Marshall to hear her experience with her father’s Alzheimer’s journey and her mother’s lightning fast dementia decline.

Sibling tensions, a bewildering array of healthcare, financial and legal decisions, reconciliation of lifelong hurts, and the emotional tsunami that surges through it all are part of the story.

Dinovember: Flintknapping Basics - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

Registration: Register!

Explore the basic techniques of making stone tools in this hands-on course for grown-ups. A limited number of starter kits will be available at the library; email ctollefson [at] deforestlibrary.org to reserve your kit before 11/17; kits may be picked up at the library beginning 11/21. 

Go Big Read: Parkland by Dave Cullen - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom

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Emma Gonzalez called BS.
David Hogg called out Adult America.
The uprising had begun.

Dave Cullen, who has been reporting on the epidemic of school shootings for two decades, takes us along on the students' nine-month odyssey, from the shooting to the midterm elections and beyond.

Stamped From the Beginning - Continuing the Conversation - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom or The Library Classroom

Registration for Zoom: Register!

You’ve read the book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, and probably have lots of thoughts about it.

If you would like to talk more about it, you are invited to continue the conversation IN PERSON at the Library OR via Zoom.

Stamped From the Beginning - Continuing the Conversation - Registration Required

When (Date)
Where
Zoom or The Library Classroom

Registration for Zoom: Register!

You’ve read the book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, and probably have lots of thoughts about it.

If you would like to talk more about it, you are invited to continue the conversation IN PERSON at the Library OR via Zoom.