Cookbooks from the past are a fascinating chronicle of the change that takes place as a community grows and expands. Food and Nutrition Educator Kate Helfrich has studied charity, or “community”, cookbooks produced in the late 1800s in Stockton and Sacramento, northern California. She shows how their recipes and advertising chronicle changes in the types of food that were eaten, the nature of home food production, and the influence of industrialization as these cities grew from Gold Rush-era local stagecoach stops to large metropolitan centers.

Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country.

Create a colorful Koinobori carp streamer and learn about Children's Day, a holiday celebrated in Japan.

This event is part of Japan Week 2025 in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

Join Dr. Charmeka Newton and discover her co-authored new workbook, Black Lives Are Beautiful, designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment. Dr. Newton will engage in a brief talk connected to this topic and there will be interactive stations present where you can try some of the tools discussed in their workbook.

The new date is September 28th from 1-2pm in the Downtown multipurpose room.Join us for a moderated talkback style discussion about Noura’s First Visit: A Book To Help Youth Prepare for Visits With Incarcerated Loved Ones by author Reda A. Taleb. This event includes books for sale.

How do young children make sense of the world? Are they limited to what they see, or can they think beyond the here and now? In this talk, Dr. Susan Gelman will discuss how children's reasoning about hidden, invisible, and abstract entities provides a unique and valuable window into the human mind. Indeed, our early capacity to look beyond the obvious underlies humanity's greatest strengths, such as our search for knowledge and meaning, as well as our gravest challenges, such as prejudice and social inequities.

Engage in the world of classification as we focus on a particular cold-blooded animal group: Reptiles! By meeting live reptiles, and through hands-on activities, we'll explore the adaptations that make them successful, and how scientists compare and contrast these particular cold-blooded creatures.

This program will occur at 1:00pm and again at 2:30pm.

This program is in partnership with Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and Leslie Science and Nature Center.