Events

  • Strawberry Social
    Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 4:00pm

    Welcome summer! Come enjoy strawberry shortcake or a sundae! Catch up with Friends!  Funds raised by this event, sponsored by the Friends of Benzonia Public Library, help the Library pay for MelCat delivery.  $4.00/single or $15.00/family.

  • Kiwanis Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast
    Monday, May 28, 2012 - 7:00am

    Pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, orange juice, coffee!  $5.50 adults/$2.50 children Lower Level.
     

  • Benzonia Academy Lecture Series - America's Civil War Historian: Bruce Catton
    Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 7:00pm

      "America's Civil War Historian:  Bruce Catton" by John Dempsey

    How did a self-effacing lad from small town Michigan emerge after his 50th birthday to become America's foremost writer of Civil War history? What was it about his writing that made him an author with lasting impact on generations of readers? Where does he stand in the continuing great debate over the War's causes, effects, and legacy? Jack Dempsey's presentation will address these aspects of Benzonia native Catton's career during this second year of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Jack Dempsey is an attorney and author of the 2011 Michigan Notable Book Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice.  Jack is vice-president of the Michigan Historical Commission, chairman of its Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee, and Chairman of the Michigan History Foundation.

    Mills Lecture Hall - upper level

  • Benzonia Academy Lecture Series - The Roaring Twenties
    Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 7:00pm

     

        "The Roaring Twenties"
            by Prof. Michael Nagle

    The decade of the 1920s was "Roaring" for many Americans as numerous businesses prospered, it was an era of heroes, and there were many new opportunities to have fun. It also was a decade of transition in which a generation gap seemed to form between parents and their children.  Additionally, the era saw the rise of Nativism and re-ergence of the Ku Klux Klan which promoted "100% Americanism."

    West Shore Community College Professor of History, Michael Nagle, will speak about the "Roaring" aspects of the 1920s, yet also demonstrate events were not so roaring" for all living in the United States.

    Mills Lecture Hall - upper level

  • Benzonia Academy Lecture Series - Stacey Daniels
    Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 7:00pm
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