Community Calendar

Holiday bazaar featuring Christmas décor, canned goods and gifts
Breakfast and lunch will be available

Put on your best costume and come trick-or-treat at the Library on Friday, October 31st from 9:30am - 4:30pm. All day long, your favorite Library staff will be dressed up and ready to hand out candy to all trick-or-treaters who visit the Library.

Murder Mystery Night is back at Morgenstern Books! Bust out your investigative skills for a night of solving cold cases in our café!

Holiday bazaar featuring Christmas décor, canned goods and gifts
Breakfast and lunch will be available

Handmade/handcrafted ONLY craft show featuring over 35 artisans/crafters from surrounding counties. Bake Sale. LUNCH served 11:00 am - 1:00 pm.
FREE ADMISSION Handicap accessible. DOOR PRIZES from every booth. Guest receive a door prize TICKET to check each booth for the winning prize.

Drop in on your Saturday afternoon to visit author Mark Saluke and grab a signed copy of his book, Lucy's Way.

Vandalia Community Preservation Association Chili Fest Fundraiser, with soup, dessert and bottled water served in the one-room schoolhouse (1:00 - 4:30 pm), featuring live entertainment by Lloyd Wood and his band in the historic chapel (beginning at 2:00 pm). Admission is $12 for adults ($5 for children age 10 and under) and covers the entire event.

All funds raised are dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of the historic Vandalia chapel and schoolhouse (listed in the National Register of Historic Places).

[INDIANA's historic village of Vandalia is located at 5471Vandalia Road in Owen County--6 miles west of Spencer.]

Morgenstern Books is excited to welcome New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow to Bloomington for an event celebrating her new book, The Everlasting! Join us at The Mill Bloomington on Sunday, Nov. 2nd at 3:00 pm for an afternoon in conversation with IU Libraries' and bookseller, Matthew Woods!

Grab your tickets now before they sell out! See the link on the Morgenstern Books website for more ticketing information.

Join the Writers Guild as we feature farm memoir at the First Sunday Prose Reading Series in November. Writers Linda Pickle and Ann Robins will share their work exploring farm life in the mid 20th Century, a different era for farming.

Sunday, November 2, 2025
4-5:30pm
Open Mic to follow
The Juniper Art Gallery and Cafe
615 W. Kirkwood Ave.

Ann Robins began writing her family stories after retiring to Bloomington in 2006. In 2019 she received the daily journals and ledgers of the family farm from 1932 to 1991. Ann swims, grows and makes things, volunteers at the downtown library, but continues to be obsessed with remembering her grandmother.

Linda Schelbitzki Pickle came to her family’s Nebraska farm in 1945, soon after her father returned to Chicago from World War II. Her parents worked hard to establish themselves and Linda was deeply shaped by her youth spent there. She sees these years now as a time of great change in American agriculture.