No registration necessary, unless specified. We add events often. Make sure you check back for the most up-to-date calendar!
Questions? Please reach out to Melissa, Adult Programming Librarian, at 608-437-5021, ext 4109, or melissa.roelli [at] mounthorebwi.info.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday July 1, 10am
Gilded Mountain, Kate Manning
Everyone is welcome at our monthly book club. We meet the 1st Tuesday of the month from 10-11am. Light refreshments are provided. Pick up a copy of the month's title at the Circulation Desk. Large print is available.
Exhibit on display July 1-30
Program: Monday, July 21, 6:30pm
With Rick Bernstein, Dane County Historical Society Executive Director
For most of the 20th century, racial covenants were a 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-Christians 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 Although no longer valid or enforceable, they can still be found in the land deeds of almost every American community, including Dane County. Racial covenants were made illegal with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968. Nevertheless, their impacts are pervasive and still with us today. This program, presented by local historian Rick Bernstein, will explore the history of racial covenants in Dane County and nationwide. Through the month of July, you can also learn about this through the traveling exhibit on display at the library.
Rick Bernstein, a graduate of Cornell University’s Historic Preservation Planning program, worked for nearly 30 years for the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Division of Historic Preservation and Local History until he retired in 2019. Since then, Rick has worked part-time as the Dane County Historical Society's Executive Director. DCHS was established in 1961 to promote Dane County’s history and to manage an archival facility at the Lussier Family Heritage Center in Lake Farm Park.
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Tuesday, August 5, 10am
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Everyone is welcome at our monthly book club. We meet the 1st Tuesday of the month from 10-11am. Light refreshments are provided. Pick up a copy of the month's title at the Circulation Desk. Large print is available.
Tuesday, September 2, 10am
Title TBA
Everyone is welcome at our monthly book club. We meet the 1st Tuesday of the month from 10-11am. Light refreshments are provided. Pick up a copy of the month's title at the Circulation Desk. Large print is available.
MahJongg Wednesdays
Weekly MahJongg at the library!
Wednesdays, 1:30pm. We play American MahJongg. Beginners are welcome! Please come the first Wednesday of the month for instruction.
