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10/07/2025

We mystery readers aren't as innocent as we appear! 🤣

10/07/2025

In Haruki Murakami’s classic short story an ordinary man returns to his ordinary apartment only to find a giant frog in his kitchen. Leaving his humdrum life behind, he joins forces with his unexpected visitor and when an existential threat faces Tokyo, he must help the frog save their city. This handsomely illustrated slim hardback edition is the perfect gift for all Murakami obsessives.

10/07/2025

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🖋️Octavia Butler 📷 Pexels

10/07/2025

Today, the roads Young carved through Sequoia still carry millions of visitors into the Giant Forest. In the hush beneath the giant sequoias, his presence lingers. It is the art of shaping a world more just, more open, and more enduring than the one you were given. Like the trees he protected, Charles Young stands tall in history: a soldier, a builder, and a guardian of both land and legacy.

Born enslaved in Mays Lick, Kentucky, in 1864, Charles Young began life amid the nation’s greatest fracture. His parents, Gabriel and Arminta Young, escaped slavery when he was an infant, carrying their son across the Ohio River to freedom. In Ripley, Ohio—a town alive with the daring of the Und...

10/07/2025

View our upcoming live music events hosted at the Aster House and make your reservations.

10/07/2025

10/06/2025

Save the date! The District is hosting a series of free screenings of Screenagers: Elementary Addition. The film encourages healthy screen time habits and discusses how to navigate digital challenges with your K-8 children. The event will feature dinner, a screening of the film and a panel afterwards. Childcare is also available.

Learn more and register here: https://www.mvpschools.org/about/news/article/~board/news/post/free-event-screenagers-elementary-edition-film-screening

10/06/2025

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, lost with all hands in a raging storm on Lake Superior, November 10, 1975.

Prudence Johnson, Ruth McKenzie, Claudia Schmidt and Kevin Kling head an all-star cast that revisits the final voyage of the Great Lakes ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald with GALES OF NOVEMBER, a concert adaptation of the critically acclaimed play "Ten November". The concert tours St. Paul at The O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University on Nov 1, Duluth at the Marshall Performing Arts Center in Duluth on Nov 6 and the Memorial Auditorium in Worthington on Nov 9. Ticket links in comments.

GALES OF NOVEMBER features the haunting music and sublime lyrics of composer Eric Peltoniemi, and select scenes and monologues from the original play by Pulitzer prize nominated playwright Steven Dietz. Vocalists Prudence Johnson, Claudia Schmidt and Ruth MacKenzie perform as three widows, singing of love, loss and life on the lakes. Beloved storyteller and actor Kevin Kling delivers a narrative that shifts between fantasy and reality, with amazing tales of Great Lakes lore and the stories of others who were on the Lake that fateful night.

Electrifying performances by Randy Sabien on mandolin and violin, Dan Chouinard on accordion and piano, Gary Rue on bass, and composer Eric Peltoniemi on guitar make GALES OF NOVEMBER an unforgettable experience.

10/06/2025

🌸 “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda 🌸
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner whose words continue to inspire readers around the world. Known for his passionate odes, love poems, and works of political resistance, Neruda’s writing reminds us of the resilience of hope and renewal.

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate his legacy and the enduring power of poetry to uplift and transform. 📚✨

10/06/2025

Artwork: Winslow Home