Poets Liz Cooperman and Thomas Walton collaborated to create The Last Mosaic, join us as they share poetry, reflect on and discuss the experience of collaboration.

Join us on Mondays in September and October to learn more about Money: our options, our choices and the impacts of our decisions. Each session starts at 5:00 pm. Stop in and learn something, and we’ll give you a Ferino’s Pizzeria discount coupon so you can pick up dinner after the session. Presented by Sue Besselievre, Kitsap Bank.

September 10
Online Banking: How Safe Is It? with Sue Besselievre

September 17
Credit Scores: What Are They? with Susan Whitmire

October 22
Cyber Security and Safety for All Ages with Jackie McVay

October 29
Money Smarts When Traveling with Susan Whitmire

Test your knowledge of rock, pop, and country music from the 1960s to the current decade.  We’ll even throw in a few T.V. theme songs from those decades too.  This high energy, live interactive game show encourages players to work as a team to try to name that tune.  Bring friends to compete as a team or fly solo and we’ll find you a team. This event is for ages 12 and over.

Enjoy an hour of Art & Music Meditation. Start your day in peace and contemplation as you let your thoughts and your paintbrush flow freely. After a short inspirational reading, enjoy creating, mixing colors, and letting art take shape while listening to quiet music.

All art supplies will be provided. Space is limited. Please sign up at the information desk by July 24.

Explore the musical connection between Western Africa, Cuba, and points beyond. From artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, Chano Pozo and DJ Spooky, players and listeners (and dancers!) in the USA have craved the big beat that is Africa’s undying gift to the world. Using recordings and instruments, hear (and play) the secular and sacred rhythms that propel Latin music.   

Meet the author, Gloria Reinertson Koll, and enjoy dramatic readings from her novel, Skipping Stones, accompanied by Scandinavian traditional folk music played by Dan Anderson.

Skipping Stones, a Scandinavian immigration novel, tells the story of how Kari, vowing to make herself lucky, travels alone from the mountains of Norway to the flat plains of 1880s Dakota Territory. With a man who intrigues her, Kari shapes a prairie life, encountering grasshoppers, blizzards, bankers who steal, and sons who love baseball. 

A different sort is neighbor Gustav. From his flinty Swedish homesteading mother and his fourth-grade education, he learns to figure profit and loss. He chooses his wife for her ability to milk a cow and trains his children to ceaseless farm work. Unavoidably in this tight community, the two mismatched families become entangled. 

Scandinavian mass migration, influenza, the Great Depression, dust bowl, and the home front of World Wars I and II create a wide-angle sweep across South Dakota and Montana. 

The camera lens tightens for tender moments: women helping women, older siblings caring for younger, and energetic families making it through happy and hard times.

Gloria Koll lives on Whidbey Island, surrounded by the waters of Puget Sound, with her husband, William Koll. She is a member of The Authors Guild and Whidbey Island Writers Association.  Previously published work includes the nonfiction book Daughters Arise! coauthored with Donna Humphreys and Sally Windecker. Her articles and stories have appeared in national and regional magazines and newspapers.