Seed exchange

Image of a tomatoSpring is coming and you might be thinking about planting your garden. You love tomatoes, but you don't need a whole seed packet to meet your needs. What to do?

Bring your extra seeds into the Seed Exchange at the library! A basket is ready for you to leave your extra current year seeds or browse from those left by others.

Everyone is welcome to participate in this free exchange. Happy gardening!

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Posted on March 1, 2012

Crafting Bee

Crafting Bee takes place from 10 a.m. - Noon every Tuesday.

The Scandinavia Public Library invites all crafters to Crafting Bee! This informal group is designed for handicrafters of all types to work in an atmosphere of creativity and mutual support. Assistance is available for a wide variety of crafts as well. So whether you knit, crochet, cross stitch, hand quilt, bead, or scrap, and whether you are a novice or an experienced pro, these sessions are open to everyone! Properly supervised children are also welcome. Please come and enjoy the fun!

You can check out some of our projects on the Scandinavia Public Library Facebook page!

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Posted on January 10, 2011

May Book Group

Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Scandinavia Book Group will meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 24 to discuss the fiction novel "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry.

The book opens with "My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time."

In Barry's captivating debut, a young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances. It's a suspicious death: a volatile local evangelist had lately been accusing Eva, who ran a local tea room and could tell people's fortunes by reading images in lace, of witchcraft.

Towner's homecoming is a reluctant one. She's spent years in Los Angeles to avoid Salem, where her twin sister committed suicide and her eccentric mother remains on an isolated island, operating a modern-day Underground Railroad for abused wives. Coming home brings Towner face to face with painful secrets that still haunt the Whitney family.

After working in theater in Chicago and writing screenplays in Los Angeles, Brunonia Barry returned to her home state of Massachusetts, where she wrote word puzzles and contributed to the Beacon Street Girls series of novels for tweens. This is her first solo novel. Raised near Salem, growing up near a town so steeped in history taught her a lesson: "I think it's important to understand our history, if only to keep from repeating it."

Barry has created a wholly original story in a surreal and feverish book with the smell of Massachusetts sea air practically wafting off every page.

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Posted on January 5, 2012

Writing Group

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:15pm - 3:30pm

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes cover artThe writing group meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month during the summer. Teens and adults interested in writing are invited to share ideas on writing, memoirs, and creativity with others.

The Library of Congress (LOC) holds vast resources for the writer, from novice to experienced. Investigate the writing and creative process through LOCs ciriculum, Langston Hughes' Drafts of Ballad of Booker T.: Exploring the creative process.

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Posted on May 8, 2012

Fish Boil Fund Raiser at Van Dyke's Restaurant

Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Cod fishA fish boil to support the Scandinavia Public Library will be held on Sunday, June 10 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Van Dyke’s Restaurant in Scandinavia, Wisconsin.

The fish boil is made possible by Van Dyke’s Restaurant as well as library board members and volunteers.

Boneless Alaskan cod fillets cooked in outdoor cauldrons will be served “poor man’s lobster” style with drawn butter, new red potatoes, sweet onions, coleslaw, fresh-baked rye bread, and a fresh-baked apple slice. The meal includes coffee, hot tea or Sanka. For those who do not enjoy fish, hot dog plates will be available. Take outs will also be available. Prices including tax are: adult $11 (1 lb cod); adult $8 (1/2 lb cod); child $6; and hot dog plates $3.

Looking for a way to build up an appetite before the fish boil? The Tomorrow River State Trail crosses Hwy 49 just south of Van Dyke's Restaurant. Bicycle or walk the crushed stone trail east towards Manawa or west towards Amherst. Note that each bicyclist age 16 or older needs a Wisconsin State Trail Pass while using the trail.

If you are not able to attend, but would like to provide a donation to the library, you may do so by writing a check to the Scandinavia Public Library or making a cash donation in person at the library. The mailing address is PO Box 157, Scandinavia, WI 54977.

Clip art courtesy of FCIT.

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Posted on May 7, 2012

Story Time

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am

 

 

Children ages 4-11 can listen to some stories followed by a quick craft and a snack. 

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Posted on May 15, 2012

Story Time

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am

 

Children ages 4-11 can listen to some stories followed by a quick craft and a snack.

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Posted on May 15, 2012

Writing Group

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 2:15pm - 3:30pm

What it is cover artThe writing group meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month during the summer. Teens and adults interested in writing are invited to share ideas on writing, memoirs, and creativity with others.

Wisconsin author Lynda Barry writes...and draws...and pastes...about the creative process in her recent book. Read What It Is from cover to cover or browse for an idea to spur your creative processes. Listen to Ms. Barry talk about the creative process in a To the Best of Our Knowledge interview.

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Posted on May 8, 2012

Story Time

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am

 

Children ages 4-11 can listen to some stories followed by a quick craft and a snack.

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Posted on May 15, 2012

June Book Group

Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join the Scandinavia Book Group as we discuss “Good in Bed,” a novel by Jennifer Weiner.

At first my eyes wouldn't make sense of the letters. Finally, they unscrambled. "Loving a Larger Woman,” said the headline, by Bruce Guberman. Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years until we'd decided to take a break three months ago. And the larger woman, I could only assume, was me.

Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized pop culture reporter was perfectly content writing about other people's lives on the pages of the Philadelphia Examiner. But the day she opened up a national women's magazine to find out that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling their ex-sex life is the day her life changes forever.

"Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world," Bruce has written. And Cannie -- who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage -- is plunged into misery, and into the most amazing year of her life.

Radiant with wit, bursting with surprises, and written with bite and bittersweet humor, Jennifer Weiner reaches beyond Cannie's story and into the heart of every woman. Gut-level real and laugh-out-loud funny, "Good in Bed" celebrates the courage of the human spirit and features an unbelievably funny cast of supporting characters, the strangest dog you'll ever encounter, and a heroine you'll never forget.

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Posted on April 10, 2012
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