The free programs offered at the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, every Monday at 1:15 p.m. from October through April are an amazing resource of knowledge and entertainment covering topics in science, art, literature, music and social science.
Your last opportunity to attend this year will occur on April 27, when the program will cover Tanka Poetry, the oldest form of Japanese poetry. Nancy Matsumoto, an award-winning freelance writer, will share her family history by discussing the book, By the Shore of Lake Michigan, written by her grandparents Tomiko and Ryokuyo through Tanka poetry.
It chronicles 17 years of their lives, starting with their forced relocation from Los Angeles to the prison camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, to their resettlement at the end of the war in Chicago. Join us afterward in the living room of our landmark building for tea, cookies and conversations.