Fennel flowers and leaves have a sweet, mildly anise or licorice flavor. Depending on when they are harvested the seeds can have a pungent, mustard taste or a stronger flavor like aniseed or licorice. Fennel bulbs are anise flavored. Stop by the circulation desk and pick up your kit with fennel seeds. Learn a little more about the spice and try a new recipe.
The River Knows Your Name by Kelly Mustian is about Nell, who has been haunted by her childhood. In the early 1970’s, she begins to dig into her past. Becca is living in the 1930’s with an infant child. Evie is Nell’s sister and doesn’t want Nell digging into her past. Follow Nell and Becca from Mississippi to North Carolina and back to see how their stories unfold. Pick up a copy at the circulation desk today.
Presented by Midway Village Museum: Come hear about the history of Camp Grant. Built in 1917 and used through World War II, tens of thousands of recruits trained at Camp Grant. Particularly notable was the arrival of over 13,000 African American soldiers, a dramatic demographic shift for a community with only 200 black residents before the war. Camp Grant also became a center for the training of medical personnel and the housing of prisoners of war.
Cloves grow best in warm, humid weather and damp, loamy soil. One tree can produce up to 40 pounds of cloves a year. When the buds turn pink, they are harvested and left to dry in the sun. Pick up your spice kit with additional history, recipes, and a sample of ground clove from the circulation desk.
In Save Me by Lisa Scottoline, an explosion happens in a school cafeteria, and Rose McKenna must decide to rescue her own daughter or another child. When the truth comes out about her choice, Rose becomes a villain in her town. Her own daughter goes back to school while the girl Rose rescued is still in the hospital. Rose decides to take matters into her own hands to prove how she tried to get both girls out of the aftermath of the explosion. Pick up your copy at the circulation desk today.
