Wisconsin Author, Guest Speaker for Readers Rampant Book Club
Members of the Readers Rampant Book Club of the Sister Bay-Liberty Grove Library will be visited by a Wisconsin author on Tuesday, May 11th. Mary Bergin will be the guest speaker that evening. She has written Hungry for Wisconsin: A Tasty Guide for Travelers and Sidetracked in Wisconsin: A Guide for Thoughtful Travelers. She is a lifelong journalist who writes a syndicated travel column that appears weekly in daily newspapers throughout the state. Her interest in food writing has been more about people, passions and trends than kitchen techniques. She's also a "farm girl" who has lived in Madison since the 1980's.
More on Mary Bergin at her website, Roads Traveled.
Scandia Village discusses My Ántonia
From Washington Island to Forestville, Door County has been immersed in 1880's frontier Nebraska as residents all over the county read and discuss My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Twenty-three teens ate pizza and participated in the discussion at Sonny's Pizzeria in Sturgeon Bay. Up north in Sister Bay, a room full of seniors joined in the discussion, with two of those seniors reading the book on a Kindle! As The Big Read Door County 2010 winds down, everyone anxiously awaits the announcement of next year's book choice. Will it be Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, or For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway?
Door County Library director, Becca Berger, joins Scandia Village residents in a discussion of Willa Cather's My Ántonia
