Morning Book Club: The Night Watchman

Galena Public Library 601 S. Bench St., Galena, IL, United States

Morning Book Club will discuss the book, The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to… Continue reading Morning Book Club: The Night Watchman

Evening Book Club: The Four Winds

Galena Public LIbrary or Zoom 601 S. Bench St., Galena, IL, United States

Evening Book Club will discuss the book, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, which takes place in Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens… Continue reading Evening Book Club: The Four Winds

No Strings Attached: A Teen Safe Spaces Meeting

Galena Public Library and Northwest IL GSA are teaming up again for a teen safe spaces event! Craft with us in a welcoming, safe space. We'll have three stations at this event: bath bombs, embroidered stationery/wall art, and wrapped wire jewelry/keychains. For students in grades 6-12.

Event Series STEAM Club

STEAM Club

Explore the intersecting worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math with hands-on projects. For grades 3-7. Registration strongly encouraged.

Stereoviews of Galena: Part 2

Galena Public Library 601 S. Bench St., Galena, IL, United States

Galena has a very rich history. Dale Glick has curated a collection of over seventy stereoviews featuring houses and scenes of Galena in its earliest years. Dale (he/him) is a historical librarian at the Galena Public Library. He has been fortunate to meet several prominent researchers in the Galena area who had original stereoviews. In… Continue reading Stereoviews of Galena: Part 2

A Conversation with Marlee Matlin: From Oscar to West Wing

Zoom only

Register here: https://bit.ly/ILP_MarleeMatlin In celebration of Deaf Awareness Month, Marlee Matlin joins Illinois Libraries Present to share the highs and lows of her Hollywood career and journeys as an activist. The youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar, Matlin’s acting career recently achieved another milestone as her 2021 film CODA swept every category it was… Continue reading A Conversation with Marlee Matlin: From Oscar to West Wing

Event Series Art Explorers

Art Explorers

Galena Public Library 601 S. Bench St., Galena, IL, United States

Afterschool, hands-on art program for grades K-2. Attendees must be accompanied by a caregiver 16 or older. Registration strongly encouraged.

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