Cross Plains - Rosemary Garfoot Public Library

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Join us for a Zoom discussion about all things Jane Austen with best-selling YA author Tirzah Price! More information to come.

Where
Library Community Room and Zoom
Contact
Questions? Email Kelly at kmckewin [at] rgpl.org

Join Becky and Steve Webster of Ukwakhwa as they share their family’s journey from growing Tuscarora white corn in their backyard to creating a 15-acre homestead rooted in Indigenous food sovereignty. Named Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayay^thoslu (Our Food: Where We Plant Things), their farm is a space where community members come together to learn about growing, harvesting, seed keeping, and traditional foodways. Becky and Steve will reflect on how caring for the land and their heirloom crops is both an act of cultural reclamation and a path toward healing and connection.

Join fellow home cooks and culinary enthusiasts for a monthly discussion of different spices and cuisines! Each month, we'll be discussing a featured spice, including its history, cultural significance, and common uses. At each meeting, you'll have a chance to pick up a sample of the next month's spice, including a selection of recipes to try it in. Attendees are welcome to use the spice at home however they choose to over the next month and come back to discuss how it went, what recipes they tried, and learn what other attendees did.

Our featured spices for fall 2025 include:

For most of the 20th century, racial covenants were an insidious tool used nationwide to segregate whites from Blacks and other minorities in America’s burgeoning suburbs and residential neighborhoods.  Racial covenants were clauses inserted into property deeds to prevent non-Whites and non-Christian’s from buying or occupying land. Although no longer valid or enforceable, they can still be found in the land deeds of almost every American community, including Dane County.

This program will highlight aspects of Wisconsin’s history and current cheesemaking/culinary culture.

Featured dance: Cumbia

Celebrate Banned Books Week with the Carpe Librum Book Club as we discuss Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. According to the American Library Association, Morrison's 1970 debut was the third most challenged book of 2022, with 73 different challenges being brought against it in schools and libraries around the country. Join us for a discussion about this classic and other banned books at our monthly meeting. Copies of the book will be available for check-out at the circulation desk beginning September 1st.