Public Event
Culinary Historians | A History of Cider
Sunday November 16, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Lectures & Panel Discussions
Uncovering Hidden Histories: Community Shareback with Justice InDeed
Tuesday October 28, 2025: 6:00pm to
7:45pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Public Event
Culinary Historians | The Myths of SPAM
Sunday October 19, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Lectures & Panel Discussions
Culinary Historians | Henry Orr, a Black Caterer in Early Federal Washington, DC
Sunday September 28, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Public Event
Booksweet Presents | Nick Baumgardner, The Program: Michigan, A Curated History of the Wolverines
Friday August 29, 2025: 6:30pm to
7:30pm
Downtown Library: Lower Level Program Room
Lectures & Panel Discussions
Detroit and the World’s Fairs: 1851-1962
Friday October 17, 2025: 2:00pm to
3:00pm
Traverwood Branch: Program Room
Public Event
Culinary Historians | “A Single Spoonful will Excoriate the Mouth”: Pepper Pot Stew and Black Female Street Peddlers in Antebellum Philadelphia
Sunday May 18, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Public Event
Culinary Historians | A Tale of Two Cities: Community Cookbooks and Urbanization in California at the Turn of the 20th Century
Sunday April 27, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: Lower Level Program Room
Public Event
Revolutionary War Soldier Burials of Metro Detroit
Wednesday April 2, 2025: 2:00pm to
3:00pm
Traverwood Branch: Program Room
Public Event
Culinary Historians | Reading Between the Lines: American Cookbooks of the Interwar Period
Sunday March 16, 2025: 4:00pm to
5:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room