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Join Roethke Events in Saginaw and Online

Events are offered throughout the year, some at the Roethke House and some through Zoom. Whether you are driving distance from Saginaw, Michigan or you are part of the Roethke diaspora, we hope you will be able to join us at some point. Upcoming and past events are listed below.

Roethk event with local poets
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"Roethke & ..." Series (seven events)
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Roethke and Williams w Rohrkemper
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Roethke and Oliver w Horwath
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Roethke and Flenniken
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Roethke and Winter
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Roethke and Skeen
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Roethke and Whitman w Domina
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Roethke and Gallagher w Bruessow, Frances
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Found and Folded: Accordion-style Artist Book Workshop
$20.00
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Transform Your Words Into Art: Handmade Paper Workshop for Writers
$20.00
Poetry: The Art of Listening
$20.00
Listening for the Poem: A Reading & Discussion with Marc Beaudin
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Superior Stories
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"Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale
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'Long Days under the Sloped Glass': Greenhouse Memories in Roethke's 'Transplanting'
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"Roethke's 'Elegy for Jane' and the Nature of Grief
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Nature Mysticism in Roethke's 'The Rose'
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Add a Montague Inn room
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Retreat Package 2025
$225.00
March 28 - Brad Johnson and Anita Skeen
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Standing in Your Story
$15.00
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Switchback: Poems of Strength & Witness
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Obsessions: What fuels your writing life? (workshop with Joan Logghe)
$15.00
Reading from the Front Burner (Reading with Joan Logghe)
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Tapping the Deep Mind
$15.00
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Inspiration & Obstacles: How Poets Learn
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Mapping the Landscape: Detail and Recollection (Harshman Workshop)
$15.00
DISPATCH FROM THE MOUNTAIN STATE and other poems
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Finding Poetry, Finding Healing During a Time of Chaos & Pain
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Writing as a Tool in Finding Healing/Writing Pain, Trauma Workshop with Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
$15.00
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Writing Toward Joy, Dispelling the Dark – 4 Class Series
$125.00
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Memory Poetry Makerspace with Jared Morningstar
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Spell for the Journey with Anita Skeen
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Verses and Conversing - Edgar Allen Poe
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Generative Writing Workshop with RS Dereen
$15.00
Carlos Ramet Book Reading & Signing
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Ekphrasis as Portal into New Universes
$15.00
Poetry Writing Workshop ONLINE with Donny Winter
$15.00
Verses and Conversing - Taylor Swift
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Casting Seeds - An Evening of Poetry & Conversation with Donny Winter
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Verses and Conversing - Pablo Neruda
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Summer Writing Club
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Poetry Writing Workshop: My Hometown, with Jared Morningstar
$15.00
Poetry Writing Workshop: Exploring Identity, with Jared Morningstar
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Collecting Theodore Roethke: The Poet’s Biography in 10 Rare Books
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Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (June 13, 2024)
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Speaker Series with Marc Beaudin (July 18, 2024)
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Verses and Conversing, June 2024
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Spoken Voices Open Mic, June 15
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Spoken Voices Workshop, Revision/Practice, June 6
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Spoken Voices Workshop (Culture), May 23
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Roethke Birthday Celebration 2024
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Verses and Conversing, May 2024
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Verses and Conversing, April 2024
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Spoken Voices SVSU Workshop
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Spoken Voices Workshop (Love), May 2
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Spoken Voices Workshop (Nature), May 9
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Spoken Voices Workshop (Culture), May 16
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Verses and Conversing - March 16
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Roethke’s ‘The Abyss’ Finding the Next Life in This One with Trenton Hickman (April 30, 2024)
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“Otto”: An Insight into Roethke’s Poetic Vision with Jeff Vande Zande (March 26, 2024)
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“Moss Gathering” and Roethke’s Romantic Child of Nature with Marc Malandra (March 19, 2024)
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“First Meditation” and Roethke’s Career with Don Bogen (May 7, 2024)
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Great Michigan Read Group Discussion (April 3, 2024)
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Great Michigan Read Group Discussion (March 23, 2024)
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Great Michigan Read Group Discussion (February 24, 2024)
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Speaker Series with Guillermo Delagdo (April 23, 2024)
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Speaker Series with Leila Chatti (April 16, 2024)
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Speaker Series with Rick Mulkey (April 9, 2024)
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Speaker Series with Anita Skeen (April 2, 2024)
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Four Temperaments – 7 Class Series
$150.00
November 8 • Interconnections of Art, Gardens, and Nature
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November 2 • Notes from the Margins: George Orwell and Philosophy with Peter Brian Barry
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October 14 • An Evening Reading with RS Deeren
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October 7 •  Lost in America: An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Jared Morningstar
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October 5 • Future Tense: On Writing the Future of Culture with Devon Powers
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September 23 •  Open House - Poetry Reading by Floet
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September 23 •  Open House - Panel: Publishing 101
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September 22 • Open House - Poetry Open Mic
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September 9, 2023 •  Hybrid Poetry Performance Workshop with Kelly Mays and Jenifer DeBellis
$10.00
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August 26, 2023 •  Hybrid Poetry Revision Workshop
$10.00
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August 17, 2023 •  Poetry Workshop with Jenifer DeBellis: Performance Poetry Viewed Through the Eye of the Storm
$10.00
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August 7, 2023 •  Poetry Workshop with Donny Winter: Planting our Roots in Short Form Nature Poetry
$10.00
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August 1, 2023 •  Poetry Workshop with Jared Morningstar: Spoken Word, Spoken Passion
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July 14 •  All Ages Poetry Workshop with Caryl Pagel and Zach Savich
$10.00
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July 13 •  Speaker Series •  Poetry Reading with Caryl Pagel, Hilary Plum, and Zach Savich
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June 14 •  Speaker Series •  “Approaching Grief” with Alice Derry
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May 23 •  Speaker Series • Bernard Quetchenbach – “The Ecological Vision of Theodore Roethke's ‘The Far Field’”
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May 16 •  Speaker Series • Sarah-Kate Moore – “‘Night Crow’ and Imagery in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke”
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May 9 •  Speaker Series • Aaron Moe – “Animality in the Poetry of Whitman and Roethke”
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May 2 •  Speaker Series •  Russell Brickey – “The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in Theodore Roethke's ‘Big Wind'"
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March 30 • Hybrid speaker event with Anita Skeen and guest poets Marion Boyer and Carol Davis.
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March 31 • Panel discussion on aspects of publishing in the creative writing world.
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March 31 • Poetry Writing workshop with Anita Skeen, Marion Boyer, and Carol V. Davis
$15.00
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April 11 • Virtual Poetry Workshop with Cindy Hunter Morgan
$15.00
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March 18 • Open House with Public Tours and River Junction Poets Reading
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March 14, 2023 • SPEAKER SERIES • Anita Skeen & Laura DeLind – To Romp and Sing: The Music of Collaboration
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Feb 28, 2023 • SPEAKER SERIES • Jeanine Hathaway – When the Muses Refuses
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Feb 14, 2023 • SPEAKER SERIES • Julia McConnell – Landlocked
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Feb 7, 2023 • SPEAKER SERIES • Colleen Anderson – Sighs and Songs, Sadness and Silliness
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August 6, 2022 • OPEN HOUSE POETRY SLAM
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August 5, 2022 • LITERARY HOUSE TOURS
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August 5, 2022 - 6:00 pm • POETRY WORKSHOP
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July 19, 2022 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • "Nature Poems from Ancient Imperial China" – a presentation by Norma Clack
$10.00
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July 13, 2022 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • A reading from 'The Dark Safekeeping' by Gloria Nixon John
$10.00
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June 21, 2022 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • A Reading from 'The Day of the Child' by Arra Lynn Ross
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June 14, 2022 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • “A Confluence of Poetry and Fiction” with Jeff Vande Zande and Ken Meisel
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May 24, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • David Wojahn – Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in Roethke’s “Where Knock Is Open Wide”
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May 22, 2022 • POETRY PANEL • Cuttings: When Sprouts Break Out
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May 17, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • John Rohrkemper – Excavating Roethke’s “Root Cellar”
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May 10, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Katharine Bubel and Nicholas Bradley – “The Longing” & “Meditation at Oyster River”: Pacific Pastoral and the Desire for Home in Roethke’s “North American Sequence”
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May 3, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Edward Hirsch – Theodore Roethke’s “Cuttings” and “Cuttings (later)”
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April 26, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Diane Seuss – From Muck We Came, and to Muck We Shall Return: The Midwest, Father-Loss, and Theodore Roethke
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April 19, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Dr. Carol Barrett – The Healing Poem: How Does it Work?
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April 12, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Dr. Carol Barrett – Defining Moments: Narrative and Image in the Emotional Shift Poem
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April 5, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Anita Skeen – The Ten-Line Poem in the Time of Crisis
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March 29, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Dr. Carol Barrett – Pandemic Poetry: Biting Hard Crackers
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March 22, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Jennifer Clement and Suzanne Mollouk – The Creative Life and the Perpetual Question: Is It Madness or Sanity?
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March 15, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Anita Skeen – Home, House, Neighborhood: The Places We Inhabit
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March 10, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Art Breeds Art: How We Can Find Creative Inspiration from Other Artists and Their Works
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March 8, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Stimulating the Satori Moment in Poems
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March 3, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • All About Careers: How What We Do Reflects Who We Are
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March 1, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • A Gathering of Voices from the Heart of Cascadia
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February 15, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • A Letter to John A. Williams
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February 1, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Native Poets: In their own Voices with Alice Derry and Kate Reavey
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January 18, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • UNLOCKED: How a Theatre Workshop Broke Down Prison Walls. Richard Hoehler.
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August 13, 2021 • OPEN HOUSE • Poetry Slam
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August 12, 2021 • HISTORIC HOUSE TOUR • Roethke House and Stone House Tour
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August 12, 2021 • POETRY READING • "The Earth's Still Breathing,” with Donny Winter
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May 25, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke” with William Barillas
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May 18, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke” with David Radavich
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May 11, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke” with Carrie Duke
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May 4, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke” with Peter Balakian
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April 20, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • “Even the Least of These” featuring Anita Skeen and Laura Delind
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April 13, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Take a Stand, Art Against Hate
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April 6, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Hooper and Taylor
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March 30, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Tepfirah Rushdan – Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit
$5.00
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March 16, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Rosie King and Robert Fanning
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December 15, 2020 • VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES • Jessica Farrell
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December 8, 2020 • VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES • Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry
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December 1, 2020 • VIRTURAL SPEAKER SERIES • Patricia Clark and Fleda Brown
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September 15, 2020 • VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES • Simone Vaughn
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September 8, 2020 • VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES • Mike Kolleth and Roethke's Written Word
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August 18, 2020 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • Event with Sherrin Frances
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August 11, 2020 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • Event with Ken Meisel and Jeff Vande Zande
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August 4, 2020 • SUMMER PICNIC SERIES • Event with Fred Reif
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