You've heard of the big ones - Campbell's, Jell-O, Kraft, Kellogg's, Hershey - but do you know how they got to be so big? And what about the name brands that aren't as famous, or that disappeared altogether? Borden, Libby's, Best Foods, Cottolene, Nabisco, Necco? Brand name foods dominate our lives, our media, and even our politics. So how did we get here? 

Connect with fellow genealogists to discuss research, share hints, and ask questions. All are welcome! 

Join Paranormal investigator and author, James A. Willis as he chronicles the connection between actual history and ghost stories, proving once and for all that even if a haunting can’t be validated, ghost stories are part of our history.

Hear– and sing along to! – chanteys and ballads of the sea, with a ghostly twist. Come learn some of the history and origins of these songs, and be prepared to feel a chill that might not only be the cold sea air. Singing along at home encouraged.

Join us in person or virtually, as the MCDL Genealogy Team presents on three different avenues of property research, including land records, previous owners, and maps.  

Florence Nightingale was a member of the British aristocracy who became a social reformer and the founder of modern nursing.  She came to prominence during the Crimean War, leading a group of nurses and tending to the soldiers wounded in that bloody conflict.

Connect with fellow genealogists to discuss research, share hints, and ask questions. All are welcome! 

Cassie Chadwick, the High Priestess of Fraud, the Queen of Ohio, the Duchess of Diamonds, begins her story anxious to get out of Cleveland, because the banks are calling in her loans. She tells her story about using her special gifts and talents to bilk dozens of people out of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars by convincing banks she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. 

Join food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson for this special combined cooking demonstration and talk. Sarah will demonstrate the roasting of a sugar pie pumpkin and its transformation into real pumpkin pie, as well as a historical overview of the pumpkin, including its Indigenous origins and use in Colonial America, as well as its transformation into a modern autumn staple.