Author Event

This year's event features six local authors, Sue Berg, Tamara Dean, Dee Miller, Andrea Nolen, David Stanfield, and Christine Wenc. Each will read from their work, and participate in a Q and A panel.  Refreshments provided and books will be available for purchase.

Sponsored in part by the Black Earth Public Library, Friends of the Black Earth Public Library, Black Earth Historical Society and Beyond the Page, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Madison Community Foundation.

Winter may seem like a quiet time, but it is actually filled with bizarre tales and stories of superstitions to cause a school snow day, winter spirits, odd Santa Claus tales, stories of little people, the deadly Wendigo, Krampus the Christmas monster, the twelve days of Christmas, werewolves, witches, people being buried alive, and numerous other holiday traditions for the darkest days of the year!

Presented by Chad Lewis, a researcher, author, and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual. 

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 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.

Learn about Edgar Allen Poe and the distinct Antebellum period in American literature while enjoying an elegantly ghoulish culinary journey through the literary world of Poe.

This event is part of Banned Books Week 2025 and presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival.

Registration required (closes April 18). 

A culinary journey into the decadence and sophistication of the Jazz Age celebrating the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic, The Great Gatsby!

DJ M White is visiting the Dream Bus with his Think Like A DJ: Varsity Program! Free Kona Ice and coloring books while supplies last.