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Crocheters and knitters, join us for conversation and crafting. Many of the projects made throughout the year will be sent to various charities. You are welcome to bring a project you are currently working on too.

In 1914 the last surviving Passenger Pigeon died in a Cincinnati zoo, ending a calamitous half-century in which the pigeon declined from billions to one and then to none as a result of uncontrolled market hunting and the resulting disruption of nesting colonies. Professor Stan Temple recounts the sobering story of the Passenger Pigeon and what it can tell us about the ongoing extinction crisis and our relationship with other species.

Join the Friends of the Library on the first Friday every month for coffee and conversation. All are welcome!

Join Spence Stehno, President of the Benjamin F. Goss Bird Club, as he discusses bird basics and current issues impacting bird populations in Wisconsin. Anyone with an interest in birds is welcome – from the novice to the advanced birder!

The #1 stressor facing Americans as they approach retirement is the fear of running out of money. With pensions leaving the marketplace, Americans are entering retirement with their two largest buckets of money being Social Security benefits and pre-tax retirement savings 401(k), IRA, etc.). Sequencing your income from these buckets in the most beneficial way may allow your retirement savings to last longer.

Even as the US government was forcing Japanese-Americans into internment camps, more than 20,000 young men of Japanese descent volunteered for service in World War II. A presentation by Russ Horton.

Crocheters and knitters, join us for conversation and crafting. Many of the projects made throughout the year will be sent to various charities. You are welcome to bring a project you are currently working on too.

From murder and matchstick men, to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters, historian and local author Matthew J. Prigge uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of Milwaukee’s early years. Presenting these stories as they were recounted in the newspapers of the era, Prigge creates a vivid narrative of the forgotten underbelly that emerged as the city transformed from lakeside settlement to American metropolis.