Decorah Public Library staff are hosting six book discussions in October. The groups are open to the public and newcomers are encouraged to attend. Anyone interested should call the library at 382-3717 to learn more or to reserve a book. Zoom links are available on the Library’s website or you can email ktorresdal@decorahlibrary.org to be added to any of the groups’ email distribution lists. Funds for multiple copy sets were generously provided by Friends of Decorah Public Library.

The History Book Group will hold a hybrid meeting Thurs. Oct. 20 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss Woody Holton’s “Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution.” In-person attendees will meet in the lower-level public meeting room at the library and digital attendees will join via Zoom. The framers of the Constitution who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America’s post-Revolutionary War slide into democracy. The primary purpose of the Constitution was to make America more attractive to investment, which meant taking power away from the states and ultimately away from the people. That the framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizen rights is due to the reaction of unruly average Americans. 

For more information, contact Tricia Crary (Friday Book Group), Zach Row-Heyveld (Cookbook Book Group) or Kristin Torresdal (Happy Hour, History, and Speculative Fiction Book Groups) at 563-382-3717.

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