Upcoming Events

Philosophy Study Group

Curt Hillstrom
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
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The MISF Philosophy Study Group meets next on Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 pm via Zoom. For this meeting we will discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's classic, On the Genealogy of Morals, first published in 1887.

"Family Declassified": Uncovering My Grandfather's Journey from Spy to Children's Book Author

Katherine Fennelly
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
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Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry?  In Family Declassified (Sunbury Press, 2023) Katherine Fennelly applied her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one hundred years ago and who became a high-ranking spy for the Allies in WWII. 

The Accidental Hero: how a WWII Czech liberation story is a current event.

Patrick Dewane
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Shorview Library, 4560 Victoria St N Shoreview, Minnesota 55126
 
A string of jaw-dropping coincidences in the last week of WWII had Colonel Matt Konop liberating the same Czech villages his grandparents had left for Wisconsin in the 1860s. Konop’s first language was Czech, and the townspeople paraded him around town on their shoulders, declaring, “one of our own has freed us!” However, like many returning veterans, Konop didn’t talk about his experience after the war. And when he died in 1983, his family knew nothing of the story that changed his life.