Events Calendar

Join our knitting group every Monday at 1pm. All levels welcome! 

Come practice your Spanish with us! This program is for adults that already have a foundation in the langauge.

Learn about going on dinosaur digs with paleontologist Joe Kchodl. 

Some of Joe's achievements include:
He continues to speak to schools and community organizations. As an example, he has spoken to 12,500 students in 124 schools in Michigan during the 2001 and 2002 school season alone and averages 60 school visits per year. This year, in 2013 he will be visiting 84 libraries in 70 days.
In 2003 PaleoJoe participated in a Dinosaur dig at Como Bluff, Wyoming with famed maverick paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker.
In 2004 he discovered ribs of an 11 Million-year-old Rhino in Nebraska at the Ashfall Fossil Beds while digging with famed paleontologist Michael Voorhies.
In 2007 he worked on a team recovering T- Rex Dinosaur and discovered bones of a Triceratops in Montana.
In 2008 he discovered remains of an associated Camarasaurus – a 60-foot long dinosaur in the deserts of Utah. Last year while finishing the Camarasaurus dig, he uncovered remains of an Apatosaurus.
In 2013 he discovered remains of another long-necked dinosaur, an Apatosaurus.
In 2015 he discovered remains of a prehistoric Armor-Plated Fish that so far may be a new undescribed species.
In 2016 he discovered serveral Denonian Fish in Apena, Michigan that are now part of the collection of the University Of Michigan Museum of Palentology.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Madison Public Library.

Join us to make Zentangle bookmarks with artist Mimi Topping.

Zentangle is a fun, easy, and relaxing method of drawing created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. It uses structured patterns, simple tools, and very basic pen-strokes to create beautiful works of art. A traditional Zentangle class uses a black graphic pen or marker, graphite pencil and a shader to create patterns on a white, square, bookmark or shaped paper ‘tile’. The patterns and possibilities are endless!

In a one-hour Zentangle class with Mimi, you will learn the building blocks for all patterns and the techniques involved in creating Zentangle art. You will experience first-hand the relaxing benefits of this art-form and create a beautiful ‘tile’ consisting of four or more patterns.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Madison Public Library

Join us to make a scarf out of a t-shirt. All supplies will be provided. Please register to save your seat. Sponsored by Madison Public Library.

Join us to discuss Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover. "In May 2017, Ted Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land--and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possible. Five-acre lots on the high prairie can be had for five thousand dollars, sometimes less. But along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services." --Provided by the publsher

What happens when a skeleton is discovered? How do scientists use bones to solve crimes? Students learn about the role of forensic anthropology in criminal investigation, and they find out can be learned from examining skeletal remains.

This lecture is presented by the Mutter Museum. 

Sponsored by the Friends of the Madison Public Library.

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business.
 
Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. 
 
And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . .
 
Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.
 
Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.

Sponsored by Madison Public Library.

New comers welcome. Must be 18 years or older due to mature content.

Join us to discuss It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood. "Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival." --Provided by the publisher.

A leading figure of 19th-century artistic innovation, Edgar Degas rejected academic traditions and instead chose to chronicle modern life—ballet dancers, café culture, brothels, the races, and intimate moments at the bath. He was a master of drawing, painting, sculpture, pastels and printmaking, as well as a curmudgeonly and caustic wit.

Join historian Joel Farkas to learn about the many phases of the Declaration of Independence. 

Sponsored by Madison Public Library.

This lesson offers an overview of the role and practice of medicine in the Civil War and a description of the impact on modern medicine. Examples include the invention of ambulances and the development of specialty medicine.

This lecture is presented by the Mutter Museum. 

Sponsored by the Friends of the Madison Public Library.

Sponsored by Madison Public Library.

NYC’s La Guardia Airport has seen a $8 billion transformation during the past years and its Terminal B, which opened in 2020, includes outstanding public art commissions by leading contemporary artists Sabine Hornig, Sarah Sze, Laura Owens and Jeppe Hein. Whether in glass, tile, hanging or functional sculpture, all projects connect with the building as well as the city and their identity in most interesting ways. We will take a look at the history of La Guardia airport, including Steinway and Ehret’s North Beach amusement park and Glenn Curtiss Field of 1929, as well as the Art Deco Style Marine Air Terminal with it’s WPA mural by James Brooks, and we will explore the new Public Art commissions in detail.

Sponsored by Madison Public Library.

While the memorable storylines of the Gothic hit TV series, Dark Shadows, helped it become one of the most popular soap operas of the 1960s, it was the mysterious, vast, and shadowy mansions — with their endless number of secret rooms, hidden tunnels, and cobwebbed halls — that arguably made the show and its future spinoffs into one of the greatest cult classics of all time. While the show was heavily fictionalized and shot mostly on a studio set, the mansion exteriors they featured were very much real. Through vintage photos and rare archival floor plans, it's time to explore six of the real-life mansions as seen in this landmark TV series, along with their shocking stories of murder, suicide, and scandals, worthy of their own Dark Shadows storyline.

Led by architect, historian, and Dark Shadows fan, Gary Lawrance.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Madison Public Library