Interest Groups
All Interest Groups articles are collected here.
Photo Club to meet November 9Event Date:“Wildlife” will be the theme when the UMRA Photo Club meets to share and discuss pictures at on Tuesday, November 9, via Zoom. More... |
It’s official: UMRA Hiking ClubThe UMRA Hiking Club is now an official UMRA special interest group. Our club motto is “hike for fun and fitness.” Published:More... |
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Customizing UMRAOne of the gratifying things for UMRA in the difficult past year was that our special interest groups flourished. If you’re willing to organize and run a group or an event, UMRA can help by promoting your plans to the membership. Published:More... |
Photo Club to meet January 11Event Date:The January meeting of the UMRA Photo Club will start with members sharing and talking about “What’s my number?” theme pictures. More... |
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Book Club II to meet January 28Event Date:How better to mark our first year of Fourth Friday Book Club than with another selection from the series of detective novels, set in the Périgord region of France, by Martin Walker. More... |
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January 26, 2022—Inuit Art Communities on Baffin Island and Aussie Travel and TriviaEvent Date: This Armchair Traveler Program featured two very interesting presentation about two very different parts of the world. Kathryn Hanna, retired faculty member from the Waseca campus and the College of Biological Sciences on the Twin Cities campus, talked about how her interest in Inuit art resulted in a trip to Baffin Island where she visited three Inuit communities and met many Inuit artists. More... |
Book Club I to meet February 18, 2022Event Date:Laura Ericksen will lead the discussion of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah when the UMRA Book Club I meets via Zoom at 2 p.m. on Friday, February 18. More... |
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Learn to scan your family photosEvent Date: In this session, we learned how to take pictures (of your pictures) with a digital camera, the pros and cons of fee-based digitizing services, and flat-bed scanners. More... |
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Book notes | Have You Seen Luis Velez?Event Date: This inspiring book by the prolific American author Catherine Ryan Hyde conveys a hopeful theme that also underlies her first novel, "Pay It Forward." More... |
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Book Club II to meet December 3Event Date:The Fourth Friday Book Club selection for its meeting in December is Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. More... |
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Book notes | A Confederacy of DuncesEvent Date: For those with contemporary 2021 sensibilities, "A Confederacy of Dunces"—acclaimed as a literary masterpiece after it was published posthumously in 1980—is a canonical work of modern literature, best understood as a period piece. More... |
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Family History: Engaging Family Members with Their Ancestors' StoriesEvent Date: Vicki Gaylord's engaging presentation on strategies she has used to engage family members with their family history. More... |
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Book notes | Braiding SweetgrassEvent Date: In Braiding Sweetgrass, author Robin Wall Kimmerer, a trained botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, shows how other living things like plants offer us lessons to live by. The culture of gratitude is a key theme. More... |
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Book notes | Invisible ManEvent Date: First published in 1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is not a one-dimensional novel about racial unrest. Members of URMA’s Fourth Friday Book Club found it to be a book rich in ideas. More... |
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Book Club I to meet December 17Event Date:The UMRA Book Club I will identify books and discussion leaders for our 2022 monthly meetings when we meet via Zoom at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 17. More... |