Explore Menomonie

Winter Storytime
2025-02-05 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-06 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-11 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-12 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-13 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-18 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-19 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-02-20 09:30 - 10:45 UTC | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Learning Together storytime is for children of all ages, attending with a caregiver.

Jan 7-Feb 27
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (9:30-10am)

Is your child 3-5 years old and ready for a storytime learning experience all by themselves? Then our “On My Own Storytime” at the library is just for them!

January 7-February 27th
Wednesdays and Thursdays
10:15-10:45am

No registration required.

Writing Genealogy Series: The Widowmaker
2025-02-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Dragon Tale Books
Capt. Timothy Tyre will kick off our Writing Genealogy Series. He researched and wrote about his parents during World War II.

The Book:
The “Widow Maker” is a true story about a young couple (Eddie & Shirley) who fall in love at the outset of World War II. It is a story about the greatest generation that unselfishly went to war against a threat to Democracy. The Widow Maker gives the reader a special lesson in the history of World War II written from the perspective of Eddie Tyre, a young Army Air Corps aviator who completes 50 combat missions in the European Theatre. The book gives a personal look into the lives of the couple who send love letters to each other and cope with a world shaken by war.

Trivia Night
2025-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Spirit Room at the Mabel Tainter, 205 Main Street East, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Bring your friends and your thinking caps for a fun night of trivia in the Spirit Room! If you’re lucky, you might even win a prize!

STEM + ART Explorers Club
2025-02-07 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-10 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-14 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Join Mr. Ray on Mondays after school (4-5pm) Jan 6-Feb 24 for Stem+Art Explorers Club. Geared for 2nd-5th graders and held in the Library meeting room.
Dive into a world of discovery as we build, create, experiment, and explore. So much fun to be had!

Cathy Reitz & 7Swing
2025-02-07 20:00 - 22:00 | The Spirit Room at the Mabel Tainter, 205 Main Street East, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
“Cathy Reitz & 7Swing,” led by Cathy and Jeff Reitz, delivers a rich musical experience with classics from the Great American Songbook, Big Band, and Swing eras, spanning pre-1920s to beyond 2020. Based in Eau Claire, their motto is: “Be happy, put a little jazz in your heart.”

Saturday Stories
2025-02-08 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-02-15 09:30 - 10:00 | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Full on family fun awaits you at Saturday Stories! Join library staff for stories, songs and movement at 9:30am in the library meeting room.
Jan 11, Jan 25, Feb, 8, Feb 22
Everyone is welcome! Activities will be geared towards preschoolers.

Meet the Author – Georgia Lee Arts
2025-02-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Dragon Tale Books
Meet author, and career and life coach, Georgia Lee Arts. She’ll have copies of her book for sale and signing.
About the author:
Georgia Lee Arts, founder of Elysian Dream® headquartered in Menomonie, WI empowers individuals to achieve career success with an innovative coaching program.

The Book: Dream Journey, Breaking the Dream Barriers™: A Guide to Bridging Identity Gaps in Life and Career

In a world defined by relentless change and shifting roles, Dream Journey, Breaking the Dream Barriers™ offers an empowering roadmap for navigating the challenges of identity gaps in life and career. This transformative guide explores how to evolve beyond adversity, grief, and burnout, redefining success on your terms and aligning authentically with your true self.
Drawing from timeless archetypes like the hero, heroine, and warrior—and inspired by figures such as Rosie the Riveter—the book invites readers on a spiritual and creative journey. Through the lens of narrative coaching, poetry, and somatic healing, it provides actionable strategies to bridge the void between who you are and who you are meant to become.
From addressing the empathy void and trauma of transitions to redefining success and embracing reinvention, Dream Journey is both a practical and reflective guide. It explores the power of branding your identity, harnessing creative solutions, and leaning into chaos as a catalyst for growth.
Whether you’re a professional seeking authentic career alignment, a leader redefining success, or an individual stepping into a new phase of life, this book will guide you to victory. Through empathy, storytelling, and the wisdom of archetypes, Dream Journey transforms adversity into triumph and chaos into clarity, empowering you to embrace your own hero’s or heroine’s journey.

Oaklawn Inn Classical Music Series presents the Dean's List Quartet
2025-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Oaklawn Inn
The sound of romantic music will fill the air at Oaklawn Inn on February 9, 2025 at 3 p.m., when the Dean’s List String Quartet performs a Valentine’s Day program. The Quartet is made up of Angie Sutliff on cello, Susan Trotter on viola, and Lila Barneson and Dean Langby on violin. All are local musicians.
The Oaklawn Inn has historic connections to Menomonie’s past. Built in 1889 by the Tainter family, one of the founders of Menomonie and builders of the Mabel Tainter Theater, the Inn was once surrounded by a stock farm and horse racing tracks. Andrew Tainter was a horse racing enthusiast. The Inn has been beautifully renovated to its former Victorian splendor. It now operates as a bed and breakfast.
Seating is limited. Tickets are available by contacting oaklawninn.com or calling 715-235-6155.

Yoga
2025-02-10 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-02-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Are you ready to pause, quiet your mind, and be present? Join us on the mat AT THE LIBRARY to bring some calm to your busy days.

Mondays @ 9am
Jan 6-Feb 24
no class Jan 20th

Spring Wreath Workshop
2025-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Event Rentals & More by CFC, 500 Main Street East, Suite L01, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Design a wreath using faux greenery, silk florals and a handcrafted spring bow atop a 14″ grapevine wreath.
Cost includes materials and necessary tools. Registration closes Sunday, February 9th.

Remaining Resilient: Overcoming Life’s Challenges
2025-02-11 18:30 - 19:30 | WI
Gary Johnson, mental health therapist and school social worker, and Lori Smith, a retired educator, will teach a zoom class focused on “Remaining Resilient: Overcoming Life’s Challenges.” Participants will learn tools to survive and thrive through life’s many challenges.
February 11, 18, 25
6:30-7:30pm
Zoom Class
No registration required
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83454663498
Meeting ID: 834 5466 3498

Single Stem
2025-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | The Spirit Room at the Mabel Tainter, 205 Main Street East, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Single Stem is Marjorie Craemer, bringing you an intimate evening of Folk, Americana, and original songs.

Coins and Currency
2025-02-15 09:00 - 17:00 | 1501 N Broadway St, Menomonie, WI 54751
Buying and Selling Coins and Currency
Silver Eagles and Rounds
Ken 218-244-9299

Cozy Cocoa Crawl–Downtown Menomonie
2025-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Downtown Menomonie, 503 Broadway Street South, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Enjoy a day of cozy comforts while you stroll through downtown Menomonie! Whether you want to make it a date, your Galentines plan, or bring the whole family, celebrate the season of love with us downtown.

Each participating business will have a cozy free sample available on Saturday, February 15th from 10:00am-4:00pm. Samples may be Swiss Miss hot cocoa varieties, cookies, a chocolate treat, ice cream, or a DIY craft.

For even more fun, spend the week filling up a Cozy Passport while you shop. Spend $5+ at a participating business February 10th-16th to have your card punched. Once you collect 10 punches, turn your card back into any participating business to be entered to win the grand prize cozy basket! Cap off the week enjoying cozy treats on Saturday with your favorite people.

Bill Wikrent: Capturing the Moment
2025-02-20 16:30 - 18:30 | Furlong Gallery
Furlong Gallery presents Bill Wikrent: Capturing the Moment, celebrating a lifetime of Bill Wikrent’s photography. For 27 years, he worked as a media specialist and photographer at UW-Stout’s Instructional Technology Services, contributing significantly to the university’s visual history. This exhibition features a selection of his campus work in collaboration with UW-Stout Archives.
The heart of this exhibition contains Bill’s personal photographs which reveal his technical expertise and artistic sensibility. His work illuminates how light and atmosphere interplay, offering insight to his surrounding world. This tribute invites viewers to experience the quiet beauty Bill captured in every frame.
Bill Wikrent: Capturing the Moment is on view at the Furlong Gallery from January 27 to March 1, 2025.
The exhibit’s reception will take place Thursday, February 20 at 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Writing History and Genealogy Series: Divination, Oracles & Omens
2025-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Dragon Tale Books
UW-Stout Professor of English and author, Joan Navarre, will relate her adventures in research at some of the most prestigious libraries around the world, along with where her research led her.
Her chapter in Divination, Oracles & Omens is “Palmistry in Britain and the United States,” so hopefully she’ll share a little bit about palm reading.
In Divination, Oracles & Omens, Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn explore our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification.
The past, present, and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other people’s lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events.
This fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles and texts, and even mathematical tools including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer’s uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from skepticism to serious engagement.
From ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given.
In person or via Zoom

Winter Market - Menomonie Farmers Market
2025-02-22 08:00 - 12:00 | WI
Join us for Menomonie Farmers Market’s WINTER MARKET and support local farmers and vendors!

Winter farmers markets offer a variety of products, including seasonal produce, meat, eggs, dairy, baked goods, canned goods and preserves, mushrooms and more. We also feature handmade items like soaps, jewelry, and hot sauces.

Location: Raw Deal Coffee Roasters, 603 S Broadway St Menomonie WI 54751

November: 9, 23
December: 7, 21
January: 25
February: 22
March: 22
April: 19
