Local artist Kathryn Dreifuerst is the first-ever summer resident at the Idea Studio in the Fond du Lac Public Library. The painter, sculptor and potter invites the public to stop in during her studio hours to create an original clay tile. Dreifuerst will fire all the tiles and install them in a community mosaic at the library.
Fond du Lac Transit’s Buses to Books program allows kids ages 6 to 17 to ride the bus to the downtown Main Library and back for free on Thursdays this summer through August 24 using their library cards as bus passes. Kids ages 6 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult, and adults pay full fare. Bus routes and other transit information are available on the Transit Dept.
This spring, historians Dr. Rick Whaley and Herman Bender have a grassroots, community-based historical research project called My Hometown. Open to anyone who wished to learn how to research the past, the group embarked on researching buildings in Fond du Lac.
The artists in Fond du Lac Visual Arts collaborative will exhibit a wide variety of work – painting, collage, photography, sculpture and more – at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Langdon Divers Gallery July 5 to August 1. The public is invited to an artists’ reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 13. Refreshments will be served.
Persons with early to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, their caregivers and family members are invited to monthly Alzheimer’s Association Memory Cafés held at 1 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The programs are free; no registration required. Each month features a new theme:
Do these sound familiar: spending too much, saving too little, carrying too much debt and ignoring your financial future? If so, you’re not alone. Get help dealing with these common financial problems in Improving Your Financial Position at noon Tuesday, July 18, at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The free program is presented by Certified Credit and Housing Counselor Maylean Tryon from Consumer Credit Counseling Service. No registration required.
Local artist Kathryn Dreifuerst will guide three sessions of DIY Ceramic Tiles on Saturday, July 8: 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Idea Studio. Participants will create original tiles that Dreifuerst will fire and install in a community mosaic that will be displayed in the studio. The programs are free and open to adults and teens age 13 and older. Registration required at the Calendar.
Crafters at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Saturday, July 15, Crafternoon programs will use dried flowers and herbs and fragrance oils to capture the essence of the season to make Summer Potpourri in a Jar at 10 a.m.* Free. Supplies provided. The program is open to adults and teens age 13 and older. Space is strictly limited. No walk-ins or under-aged children allowed.
Just 20 miles or so east of Fond du Lac sits the Wade House Historic Site in Greenbush. It’s a place that recreates the world of stagecoach travel in early Wisconsin. How the Wade family built a town and survived the changing landscape of Wisconsin is a story well-told.
Fond du Lac Transit’s Buses to Books program allows kids ages 6 to 17 to ride the bus to the downtown Main Library and back for free on Thursdays this summer through August 24 using their library cards as bus passes. Kids ages 6 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult, and adults pay full fare. Bus routes and other transit information are available on the Transit Dept. 
This spring, historians Dr. Rick Whaley and Herman Bender have a grassroots, community-based historical research project called My Hometown. Open to anyone who wished to learn how to research the past, the group embarked on researching buildings in Fond du Lac.
The artists in Fond du Lac Visual Arts collaborative will exhibit a wide variety of work – painting, collage, photography, sculpture and more – at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Langdon Divers Gallery July 5 to August 1. The public is invited to an artists’ reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 13. Refreshments will be served.
Persons with early to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, their caregivers and family members are invited to monthly Alzheimer’s Association Memory Cafés held at 1 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The programs are free; no registration required. Each month features a new theme:
The drop-in Yarn Crafters group will meet at 6 p.m. Thursdays July 13 and 27 at the Fond du Lac Public Library.
Crafters at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Saturday, July 15, Crafternoon programs will use dried flowers and herbs and fragrance oils to capture the essence of the season to make Summer Potpourri in a Jar at 10 a.m.* Free. Supplies provided. The program is open to adults and teens age 13 and older. Space is strictly limited. No walk-ins or under-aged children allowed. 
Just 20 miles or so east of Fond du Lac sits the Wade House Historic Site in Greenbush. It’s a place that recreates the world of stagecoach travel in early Wisconsin. How the Wade family built a town and survived the changing landscape of Wisconsin is a story well-told.