Open: Twice monthly on Sundays, 1-4 pm
Closed: Holiday weekends and when a GWBHS program is elsewhere.
** Note: Please check event locations carefully and check this page for the latest updates. **
**GWBHS has a new Open House schedule January – April 2025!**
Open: Twice monthly on Sundays, 1-4 pm
Local Black History Open House
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 1-4 pm
(Free admission, donations appreciated)
Orchard Lake Museum, 3951 Orchard Lake Road
In 1908, Marie C. Bolden, an Ohio-born African-American teenager, became the first-ever national spelling bee champion in the U.S., overcoming tricky words like “acquiesce”, “descendant”, and “millinery” on her way to the top. But her achievement was quickly eclipsed by racial prejudice, and her story rarely told. Please join us to hear West Bloomfield stories rarely told.
Open House
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 1-4 pm
(Free admission, donations appreciated)
Orchard Lake Museum, 3951 Orchard Lake Road
Permanent exhibits interpret local area history and culture.
Presentation – Detroit’s 1910 Kosher Meat Riot
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7 pm
(Free admission, donations appreciated)
WB Library Main Meeting Room, 4600 Walnut Lake Road
As Gilded-Age robber barons manipulated their beef industry headquartered in Chicago, the rest of the United States–including Jewish communities–experienced distressing ripple effects. In Detroit in 1910, working-class Orthodox women were no longer able to afford Kosher meat. Under the direction of 20-year-old Rebecka Possner, Jewish women took to the streets, fighting to stabilize prices and the community. Hear JHSM Executive Director Catherine Cangany, PhD retell this remarkable and forgotten moment in Michigan history. Sponsored with West Bloomfield Library.