Live @ the Library
Michigan Notable Author Daniel Clark Presents: Listening to Workers
Tuesday, May 27th at 7:00 p.m.
Using interviews and archival research, Listening to Workers uncovers the personal and often overlooked lives of Detroit-area autoworkers in the 1950s. The book explores the complexities of their experiences, addressing issues like poverty, divorce, workplace dangers, and personal struggles, challenging the notion of the 1950s as a time of widespread prosperity. Offering a humanizing perspective, it presents workers as multidimensional individuals, with rich, personal stories that go beyond traditional labor history.
An Evening with Author Viola Shipman (Wade Rouse)
Wednesday, June 4th at 6:00 p.m.
Wade Rouse is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and #1 internationally bestselling author of 20 books, including five memoirs, 12 novels and three holiday novellas. His novels, including The Charm Bracelet, The Hope Chest, The Summer Cottage, and The Heirloom Garden, have been translated into over a dozen languages and become international bestsellers. 2025 will be a big year with three books being published, including his latest Viola Shipman novel, The Page Turner. This new novel celebrates how books and reading change and save us – takes readers inside the world of publishing today and asks why we judge one another and the books we read by our collective covers.
Blades of the Caribbean Pirate
Tuesday, June 10th at 6:30 p.m.
Swashbuckling Pirates and Cutlass-Wielding Buccaneers were more than just mindless brutes! The stories of the varieties of blades and how they were used is a perfect match to explain the history of the Pirates in the New World! Join Swordsmanship Museum and Academy Historian, Jerry Berg, as he takes us through the story of piracy by sharing and demonstrating the wide variety of blades and techniques used by these sea dogs! Many artifacts from the Museum Collection will be on display and incorporated into this presentation!