Dr. Kathleen Verduin, Professor of English at Hope College, will answer the question “Why read Moby Dick?” As an American literature professor, Verduin regularly reads Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with...
Alison Teal, the Female Indiana Jones shares her adventures across the globe. Alison Teal spent her childhood exploring remote corners of the Earth, encountering exotic people and places and investigating...
Our Little Read Lakeshore program is thrilled to virtually host this year’s Little Read author, Marsha Diane Arnold. She will share about the inspiration, research and writing of her bilingual...
What would you have done on board the ship, Essex? What moral and ethical choices would you have made? Join Dr. David Stubbs and Dr. Daniel Flores from Western Theological...
Come join us and listen to Hope College professors’ crazy adventure stories. The NEA Big Read’s very own Deb Van Duinen will be talking about her experience with landmines? President...
Reading our Little Read book is only half of the fun! Getting together with others to enjoy our love for the book adds to the fun! Head out to Patmos...
Want to learn more about racial literacy, ways to think about it, and talk about it whilst reading literature? Well, look no further, we’re thrilled to have Dr. Carlin Borsheim-Black,...
Join Daniel Elias from the Nantucket Historical Association, as he discusses race as it relates to In the Heart of the Sea. Race on the island of Nantucket is as...
Whales are awe inspiring giants of the sea. Come and learn more about them by listening to marine biologist and conservationist, Danny Kosiba (Hope College ‘17). Danny has worked on...
Members of the Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony (ACEH) an organization dedicated to promoting unity, justice, equal opportunity, ethnic awareness, cross-cultural understanding and appreciation for diversity. We invite you...
Leave your screens behind and walk with our friends at Loutit District Library on a Galápagos Girl/Galapagueña StoryWalk® at Rosy Mound Natural Area in partnership with Ottawa County Parks. Walk...
Music was a key part of a whaler’s life. Some of their songs were for working. For example, shanties helped sailors to pull their oars in concert. Others helped make...
