October 2018 @ the Library
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Please note the library will be closed the morning of October 8 for staff training. We will open at 1:30pm.
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Photography Contest Winners
Please j
oin us for a reception on Saturday, November 10 from 4:30-6:30pm. All the winning photos will be on display and light refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.
We're hiring!
Are you an energetic, creative, service-oriented person who enjoys working with the public? Do you have an appreciation for libraries, books, and reading?
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National Friends of the Library Week
October 21 - 27
It's time to celebrate our wonderful Friends of the Whitefish Bay Library! We'd like to give them a big thank you for all their hard work and commitment. Their efforts have raised enough money to replace much of the furniture in the adult and kids towers so be on the lookout for its arrival soon.
Friends of the Whitefish Bay Library Booksale
Saturday, November 3, 9:30am-3:30pm
Sunday, November 4, 12-3pm
Mark your calendars for our fall book and media sale. We've got some great items for sale and all the money comes right back to the library! Friends only preview happens Friday, November 2 from 5-7pm. If you aren't already a Friend you can sign up at the sale.
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Steve Person, a retired funeral director, presents this program on many of the Victorian funeral and mourning customs.
It was during the Victorian Era that the ritual of death became increasingly sophisticated and this period saw the development of the modern cemetery, morticians and public funeral complete with floral arrangements and the hearse for transportation of the deceased.
Mortuary and embalming equipment and instruments from this era are also a part of the display that is shared during this presentation of “The Victorian Undertaker”.
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The film is an examination of Alice Tregay, who fought for human rights alongside Dr. Martin Luther King. Craig Dudnick, the filmmaker, will be on hand for a discussion after the movie. This is sure to be an educational and inspiring evening cosponsored by One Circle Forward.
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Getting to know Medicare is a class designed to acquaint current and future Medicare Beneficiaries with the four parts of Medicare as well as equip them to navigate through the various insurance options. Pleases register.
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October programs abound with STEAM activities, storytimes, and more! All programs require registration which begins on October 1.
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At this STEAM storytime, we'll be learning about the science of leaves with stories and tons of hands-on activities and lots of fun. Registration begins October 1.
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Learn the magic and mystery behind the Fibonacci sequence and use your knowledge to make art! Once you know the Fibonacci numbers, you will see the patterns in nature and everywhere you go.
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We'll learn all about the science of clouds and weather with books, brainstorming, and plenty of hands on scientific activities to make the science come to life.
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Join us for an interactive and play-filled program featuring songs, rhymes and activities with the library parachute.
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Meet Up Mondays, 3:30-4:30pm
October 1
We meet the first Monday of the month to do a craft, eat some snacks and just hang out. No registration is required, just drop by the teen area.
Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot is a fast paced, action filled card game in which you must try to keep as many Bunnies alive as possible, while eliminating your opponents' Bunnies.
Get in the Halloween spirit with these spooky crafts that you can bring home with you!
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Beneath Milwaukee's calm façade, its ghastly past awaits. In life, Charles Pfister played the dutiful hotel host, and he tends this office still in death. The overbearing spirit of Frederick Pabst keeps persistent watch over the mansion that shares his name. The remains of the Newhall House Fire, the city's deadliest disaster, may lie beneath a new building, but those who lost their lives that night refuse to rest in peace. Even the suburbs hold their share of ghoulish secrets, including the furtive dwarves of Haunchyville, the fabled Bray Road Beast and the stubborn spirits lurking in Deacon West's house. Tour guide and founder of Gothic Milwaukee Anna Lardinois shares the spine-tingling tales of the Beer City's famous, and not so famous, specters and legends.
-From Amazon
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In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.-From Amazon
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Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a math genius. He also suffers from devastating panic attacks. Pete gets through each day with the help of his mother—a famous scientist—and his beloved twin sister, Bel.
But when his mom is nearly assassinated in front of his eyes and Bel disappears, Pete finds himself on the run. Dragged into a world where state and family secrets intertwine, Pete must use his extraordinary analytical skills to find his missing sister and track down the people who attacked his mother. But his greatest battle will be with the enemy inside: the constant terror that threatens to overwhelm him.
Weaving between Pete’s past and present,
This Story Is a Lie
is a testimony from a protagonist who is brilliant, broken and trying to be brave.-From Amazon
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Whitefish Bay Public Library | (414)964-4380
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