Stacey from Augusta reminded me about the upcoming Wisconsin Science Festival, October 15-18. This is a great opportunity to share science-related programming with your community and be part of a state-wide effort. And they are all set to help support a physically-distanced event–for any age! Options include a Badger Talk from a University of Wisconsin professor, participating in a BioBlitz (citizen science for all ages!), and more. It looks inspiring and positive, at a time when we are relying more than ever on the information science can provide us. I hope some of you can get your library involved.
Thanksgiving Books
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both historically inaccurate and promote harmful ideas about the Indigenous people already here when the colonists celebrated their...