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1/2/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/2/2025
Ages 8 - 12. Join us for an afternoon of fun and friendly Switch gaming! We’ll play Mario Kart today! Who’s the best driver around? Feel free to bring your Switch to play between your turns! All skill levels welcome!1/2/2025
Ages 7+. Start the new year with some FUN--Learn the basics of Square or Contra Dance and have fun at this lively FREE workshop! Come solo, bring some friends, make some friends, and learn fun dances in a friendly, relaxed, judgment-free atmosphere. Recorded music, live, in-person instruction, these fun dances are like an amusement park ride you make for yourself! Wear comfortable shoes and clothes you can move easily in. Dances will alternate. 1/7/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/8/2025
Adults. Join us at the library for a fun afternoon playing Bingo and winning books and other prizes. Refreshments will be provided.1/8/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/9/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/9/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/11/2025
18 months & younger and their parents or caregivers. We’ll read a story, sing and rhyme together, do a fingerplay, and have fun while learning and playing. We’ll end with time for caregivers to socialize and babies to play & interact with each other.1/14/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/14/2025
Ages 8 - 12. We’ll have our Minecraft server set up and the laptops ready to go. No experience needed -- all levels of players/builders welcome.1/15/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/15/2025
Ages 12+. Join Historian Andrew Kercher and examine the historical past of our Great Lake State! Shipwrecks are fascinating to divers, historians and anyone with an imagination that's been near the lakes on a stormy day. Different wrecks can tell stories of courage and heroism, but also of cowardice and greed. They can also be used as a way to see the changing nature of shipping on the Great Lakes and the evolution of Michigan, from territory to frontier state to modern times.1/16/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/16/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/16/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/18/2025
Ages 6+. Lincoln Brick Park. Just like us, birds and mammals are around in the winter! Join us at Lincoln Brick Park to learn more about our local winter wildlife. See and identify various animal tracks found in our area, discover the strategies that wildlife employ to survive during winter, and create homemade bird feeders to take home. Enjoy roasting marshmallows over a fire too!1/20/2025
Ages 4+. Create a sparkly winter piece of art with paint, glue, and Epsom salts. Learn about the science that happens when you combine paint and salt.1/21/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/22/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/22/2025
Adult. There is a lot of consumer confusion around "credit", and yet credit affects so many aspects of daily life! This workshop will address credit myths, explain the importance of credit reports, demystify credit scores, and provide strategies to build and protect your credit. Participants may receive several handouts. Presented by Ezra Pompos, Financial and Homeownership Program Instructor, MSU Extension. Questions? Call Ezra’s office: 517-887-4575, email epompos@msu.edu 1/23/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/23/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/23/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/27/2025
Ages 3+. Kids can enjoy time to create with clay! We’ll have several different kinds on hand – from PlayDoh to Sculpty-type clays for older kids to enjoy. Some clays can be oven baked to make miniature creations! Younger kids increase their hand strength and dexterity by playing with PlayDoh and clay.1/28/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/29/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/29/2025
Ages 16+. Join Swordsmanship Museum and Academy historian Jerry Berg as he leads us through a journey back a millennium to the Viking Age to explain and explore the Warrior society of the Viking Culture! The presentation will answer all your questions about Vikings!1/30/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/30/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/30/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 