Mid-terms got you down? The Oscar Rennebohm Library would like to welcome Edgewood College students to Oscar Days - seven days of stress-busting activities, games, and refreshments, from Saturday, October 9th through Friday, October 15th!
Every day we will have a different activity or game - including coloring pages, making paper airplanes and fortune tellers, and jigsaw puzzles. Get a punch card from the front desk, and collect punches for every activity you complete, and at the end of the week turn it in to win a prize! There will also be snacks provided Monday through Friday.
Our library is named after Governor Oscar Rennebohm (May 25, 1889 – October 15, 1968), who was governor of Wisconsin from 1947-1951. Before becoming governor, he worked as a pharmacist, and eventually ran a chain of his own drug stores in Madison. The building which houses the University of Wisconsin-Madison school of pharmacy is now named after him. As governor he was active in education reform, and in 1949 he founded the Rennebohm Foundation, which supports education in the Madison area.
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Currently I am reading the engaging and unique memoir The Way Through the Woods by Litt Woon Long.
Through a friend, I recently learned the basics of foraging for wild mushrooms and therefore was drawn to this book. After reading the introduction, I quickly realized it was so much more. The author provides a compelling account of their decent into grief after the sudden death of her husband. As a way to cope and get out of the house, the author teaches herself about mushrooms and foraging. It is a remarkable tale of her journey out of sorrow and grief and into the fantastical world of fungi. Even if you have little interest in mushrooms, it is a wonderful guide to dealing with loss and learning to love life again.
On a side note, while our library does not own a copy of this book I was able to get it using our excellent interlibrary loan service Oscar Express.