Upcoming Events Sponsored or Co-sponsored by The Friends
Annual Used Book Sale August 1, 2026 (9 am to 3 pm)
The Friends will host our annual used book sale that includes DVDs, puzzles, and of course, books all for a donation! Everybody is welcome and invited to come check out what we have in stock!
U.P. Notable Author Zoomchats
August 13, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Mikel B. Classen discusses Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates.
September 10, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Mary V. Tippett discusses Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster.
October 8, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Terri Martin discusses Straw Horse.
November 12, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Kathleen M. Heideman discusses The Caving Grounds.
December 10, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Tyler R. Tichelaar discusses The Mysteries of Marquette.
Prior Events
On July 11, 2026 The Friends hosted an ice cream social during a very hot Saturday day. The Friends handed out 102 cups of ice cream and 70 bottles of water after the bass festival parade that same day! A huge thanks to our volunteers: Ann Blum, Carol Foucault, Val Novak, and Curtis Oja!
On May 6, 2026 The Friends participated in the Crystal Falls community Spring into Summer Ladies' Night Out. Visitors to the library enjoyed appetizers and sweet treats and entered a drawing for one of three gift bags. Our talented Peg P. hand crocheted the adorable critters for the gift bags.
On March 14, 2026 (3.14) is Pi Day and the Friends celebrated by hosting a Foucault Brothers concert and serving slices of pie! Wow, look at all those yummy pies made by our Friend bakers!.
On February 14, 2026 The Friends hotsed a Valentine Bingo afternoon with lots of prizes. Here's our Friends Board Secretary Peg Padilla calling numbers!.
On December 20, 2025 The Friends sponsored our THIRD annual Cookie Walk fundraiser. Due to the baking talens of our Friends, who donated over 20 varieties of cookies, we are fast become the place to go for all your holiday cookies!.
On December 18, 2025 The Friends sponsored and invited many local authors to come to the library to autograph and sell their books! There were also goodies and the quilt raffle.
On November 19, 2025 The Friends invited every lady to visit the library and get a free book of their choosing.
On October 25, 2025 The Friends sponsored our annual Halloween Book Bash. Instead of candy we give a free book to each child.
Our library director, Evelyn Gathu, was named Librarian of the year by the Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation. The Friends and Library Board sponsored a thank-you reception at which 85 patrons participated.
On September 6, 2025 The Friends invited children to join us in a "Book Walk"
Friends who participated included Carol Foucault, Anne Blum, Debbie Deuter, Mary Ann Keil, Janet Wagner, and Terri Takala
On September, 2025 Friends Peg Padilla, Mary Ann Keil, Janet Wagner, and Maureen Elson entered us into the Alpha Brewery scarecrow contest and won first prize! 'Friendly Frank' then hung out in the pocket park proudly displaying his blue ribbon!
On August 2, 2025 The Friends sponsored our annual USED BOOK SALE.
It's our biggest fund raiser of the year. In addition to used books, we offered fresh baked goods, and attractive merch!
Prior U.P. Notable Author Zoomchats
July 9, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Helen Raica-Klotz discussed Superior Stories.
June 11, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Jon C. Stott discussed Wild Blueberry Summer: More Upper Michigan Moments and Memories.
May 14, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Deborah K. Frontiera discussed Living On Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy.
April 9, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Ellen Lord discussed Vigil: Poems.
March 12, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Sue Harrison discussed Rescuing Crash, the Good Dog.
Febuary 12, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Frederick Stonehouse discussed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
January 29, 2026: (6:00 pm) author Diana Magnuson discussed Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing: In and Around All Year Long.
December 11, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Larry Jorgensen discussed Make It Go... In the Snow.
November 13, 2025: (6:00 pm) Patricia Graham, author Loren Graham's wife discussed A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa.
October 9, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Carol L. Schultz discussed The Story of Journey: The Great Horned Owl.
September 11, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Sharon Dilworth discussed To Be Marquette: A Novel.
August 14, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Joseph Heywood discussed Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Unexpurgated As Overheard and Noodled.
July 10, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Joan H. Young discussed How to Hike the North Country Trail: Not Quite a Guide.
June 12, 2025: (6:00 pm) author J.D. Austin discussed The Last Huck: A Novel.
May 8, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Sharon Marie Brunner discussed Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History.
April 10, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Raymond Luczak discussed Animals Out-There W-I-L-D: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss.
March 13, 2025: (6:00 pm) two grandchildren of author William S. Crowe discussed Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula Michigan.
February 13, 2025: (6:00 pm) author Nikki Mitchell discussed Ellie and the Midwest Goodbye.
December 12, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Steve Lehto discussed Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder .
November 14, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Sue Harrison discussed her novel The Midwife’s Touch.
October 10, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Peter Wurdock discussed A Nostalgic Lens: Photographs and Essays from Michigan's U.P..
September 12, 2024: (6:00 pm) members read and discussed Murder in Mackinac by Ronald J. Lewis.
August 8, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Julie Buchholtz discussedWho Am I?.
July 11, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Gregory M. Lusk discussed The Great Seney Fire: A History of the Walsh Ditch Fire of 1976.
June 13, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Rod Sadler discussed Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer.
May 9, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Jon C. Stott discussed Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan's U.P. .
April 11, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Tyler R. Tichelaar discussed his novel Odin’s Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel .
March 14, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Matthew Hellman discussed his horror novel The Biting Cold.
February 8, 2024: (6:00 pm) author Jennifer S. McGraw discussed The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette's Many Graves.
November 9, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Larry Jorgensen discussed the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in his nonfiction account Shipwrecked and Rescued: Cars and Crew: The City of Bangor.
October 26, 2023: (6:00 pm) the Marquette Poets Circle discussed their ten-year anthology Superior Voyage.
September 8, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Ann Dallman discussed her YA novel Cady and the Birchbark Box.
August 10, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Eugene Milhizer discussed his treatise Disecting Anatomy of a Murder.
June 8, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Hilton Everett Moore discussed his six short stories that make up North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
May 11, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Julian May discussed her children't book The Big Island: A Story of Isle Royale illustrated by John Schoenherr.
April 13, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Dorothy Paad discussed her children's book Dorothy is Moving Mountains illustrated by Matthew Forgrave.
March 9, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Phyllis Michael Wong discussed her nonfiction account of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn. We Kept Our Towns Growing: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
January 12, 2023: (6:00 pm) author Sharon Kennedy discussed her connected short stories The Sideroad Kids: Tales from Chippewa County.