Our Purpose: Zion matters to the community by showing the love of Jesus Christ.
Join us at True North this year where we will experience the ultimate Alaskan adventure with Jesus as our guide! Zion’s Vacation Bible Adventure is June 23rd – 27th from 9:00am to 12:30pm Monday through Thursday, and 9:00am to 1:00pm on Friday. At True North, your children will enjoy an interactive and Bible-based week full of service as everyone learns we can always trust Jesus, no matter what. He is our TRUE NORTH!
Our program is designed for children ages 4 through those who have completed 5th grade, and remains FREE to all participants because of your continued support. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis with a maximum of 50 children. Activities will include Bible study, games, crafting, singing, outdoor activities and community service. Snacks will also be provided for the children Monday through Thursday, and we will provide pizza for lunch on Friday.
Please register at the office by Thursday, June 19th to help us plan for the appropriate class sizes and numbers. Registrations will be accepted during the week of VBA only if space is available. You may download and print the form here.
Each child must be picked up by a parent or alternate person that you have designated on the registration form, regardless of the child’s age. We also ask that your child wear tennis shoes, or shoes with enclosed toes every day for safety reasons.
True North Highlights:
sunscreen and the Kona Ice Truck will be here at noon.
Program at 12:00pm followed by pizza and ice cream.
There will be special service projects throughout the week at Zion and for the kids to do at home.
Please feel free to call the church office at (330)499-3909 with any questions you might have. Thank you for sharing your child with us for a week of fun, friendship, learning, service and God’s Love!
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Book Club Schedule
September 2024 – May 2025; First Friday, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Coordinator: Peggy Ingalls (330)-284-3518
2024
October 4 –Sue Whalen
Sold on a Monday – A Novel by Kristina McMorris
“…inspired by a stunning piece of Depression-era history. 2 Children for Sale sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931... This sign is a last resort… could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices…For struggling reporter…gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past.”
November 1 – Peggy Ingalls
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley.
“…an untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves…rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses…for Jackie Kennedy…Less than a week before…a pipe bursts ruining ten dresses…including the expensive wedding dress…”
December 6 – Cindy Bagocius
The End of Drum-Time by Finnish author Hanna Pylvainen
In 1851, …in the Scandinavian tundra, A Lutheran minister… tries in vain to convert the indigenous Sami reindeer herders…one of the most respected herders…dedicates his life to the church…{so} his impetuous son, Ivaar, is left to guard their diminishing herd…old ways of every kind...are uprooted.”
2025
January 3 – Laura Thompson
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
“…a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America…Johnstown PA was a booming coal-and-steel town…in the mountains above… an old earth dam…hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons…when the dam burst…smashing through Johnstown and killing more than 2000 people.”
February 7 – Ruth Reinoehl
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“…Elizabeth…a gifted research chemist…the early 1960’s…her all-male team…takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except…brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder Calvin…chemistry results…a few years later…not only a single mother but the reluctant star of…most beloved cooking show…proves revolutionary...daring women to change the status quo.”
March 7 – Jayne Schrader
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“Cheryl thought she had lost everything…with her mother’s death…family scattered…own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later with nothing to lose…With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail…alone.”
April 4 – Ken Reinoehl
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, Frances Spatz Leighton
“The authors were eyewitnesses to some of the great events of history and offer different perspectives from that found elsewhere…two domestic servants, each of whom worked for 30 years at the White House…an overlap of ten years…for a 51-year span…1909 until 1960 in the concluding days of the Eisenhower Administration…”
May 2 – Linda Gotthardt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
“Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years…Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child…whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. …enduring masterpiece and best-known work.”
