Events

Old family photos, slides, Super 8 reels, VHS tapes, and other cherished media no longer have to gather dust. RELIC’s new Digital Preservation Lab at Central Library has the solution. Much like the makerspaces, the Digital Preservation Lab provides free-to-use equipment to digitize and share precious family memories. The equipment was specially selected to be […]

This class is a continuation of the one Father Hughes led last fall. He will cover the historical, theological, and archeological components of old and new testament women. You may register for this class whether you attended the one held in the fall of 2025 or not. The class was very popular last fall, so […]

Books, both fiction and non-fiction, are selected by the members. They choose books from a list of suggestions for September through June. Members are encouraged to lead a discussion. The discussions are educational, interesting, and fun for all, including those who may not have finished reading the book. Presenter: n/a n/a LLI Coordinator: Lianetta Ruettgers

These five sessions, facilitated by Alice Mergler and Dottie Ward-Wimmer, will take us into poetic foundations: the ABCs of what poetry is and how to begin planting your words like seeds that grow into rhythms, rhymes, stories, and wisdom. We will write and then read each other’s work, sometimes silently, sometimes aloud, before discussing it. […]

For thousands of years, people have wondered what the Universe is made of and if there is a “smallest thing” from which everything else is made. Today, we call this area of science “Particle Physics.” In the late 19th and 20th centuries, research led to major new understandings of the way atoms work. In the […]

In this, her fifth presentation for LLI, Louise will share photographs she took on two spectacular trips to Canada in 2025. The first trip was to Newfoundland in July. It was the peak migratory season for seabirds and mammals converging in the northwest Atlantic Ocean to take advantage of the fish crowding into the coastal […]