Summer Reading

Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment—but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle. When a reenactor is found dead at...

Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from...

A moving memoir that will touch your heart and open your mind to the true meaning of vision. The true life story of woodworking TikTok sensation John Furniss, his wife Anni, and their powerful relationship. Softcover.

With classic simplicity and a painter’s feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Dinesen was the pseudonym for Karen Blixen, a Danish writer of...