The MCM Podcast

Join Brian Brown and Colin McGinnis to learn about Mindfulness and Slacklining. Slacklining offers a host of benefits including, strengthening stabilizing muscles and increasing working memory capacity. They will be having another workshop at the Jensen Center in Amherst, WI, on August 28, at 6pm. https://lettiejensencenter.org/events-at-the-jensen-center/ More podcasts at: mcmillanlibrary.org/pod...

Today we a re joined by The Accidentals. The Accidentals are an American musical band, formed in Traverse City, Michigan, United States in 2012, by Savannah Buist and Katie Larson, joined by percussionist Michael Dause in 2014. Librarians, Brian and Jennie, interview the band about their beginnings, interests, and more. More podcasts at: mcmillanlibrary.org/podcasts

A new monthly podcast brought to you by the McMillan Conversation Maker Podcast called, Bibliognost: Librarian Book Reviews with Colin and Jennie. Each month they will talk YA and Adult books both old and new, and sometimes TV series and movies. More podcasts at: mcmillanlibrary.org/podcast

Today Jackie Carattini from the UW-Ext. talks food preservation, jams, and canning. Did you know that jam recipes are created in labs? Learn all the ins and outs of canning, and then come to one of her monthly presentations at the library! For more podcasts visit: www.mcmillanlibrary.org/Podcast

Marc Thompson joins us to discuss the Central Wisconsin Literacy Council, patents, and his recommended science fiction reading list. For more podcasts visit: http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/Podcast

A new monthly podcast brought to you by the McMillan Conversation Maker Podcast called, Bibliognost: Librarian Book Reviews with Colin and Jennie. Each month they will talk YA and Adult books both old and new, and sometimes TV series and movies. This episode features: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid by Colin Meloy, Refugee by Alan Gratz, Annihilation by J...

Today we have Fire Department Capt. Robert Barteck on to discuss his deployments with Disaster Medical Assistance Teams to Texas in response to Hurricane Harvey and Puerto Rico in response to Hurricane Maria. He is presenting at the McMillan Library, Thursday April 12 at 7:00pm in the All-Purpose Room. http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/good-medicine-bad-places

A quick recap of our new offsite bookclub called Prost Proxima. This is also a nice teaser if you're on the fence about reading Ready Player One. We talk about some of the positive points, and negative. In the next Bibliognost book review podcast, Jennie and Colin will discuss Ready Player One, with spoilers, among other titles. Ready Player One is available at the McMillan Library. More podcasts...

A new monthly podcast brought to you by the McMillan Conversation Maker Podcast called, Bibliognost: Librarian Book Reviews with Colin and Jennie. Each month they will talk YA and Adult books both old and new, and sometimes TV series and movies. This episode features: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Brass by Xhene...

Today we have Jeremy Erickson, Horticulture Assistant, from the Wood County UW Extension. He talks about what the UW Extension is trying to do, and unique services that are offered to the community for free. We talk soil, gardening, micro-greens, hemp, and literature. If you have more questions, you’ll learn where to ask those questions in the podcast. More podcasts at: mcmillanlibrary.org/podcast

We have Tarah Mancl on, who is a yoga instructor at the Wellness Barn, located right across the street from the library in Wisconsin Rapids. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher through YogaFit; also a registered member of Yoga Alliance. On January 15th Tarah will be teaching a class, “Gentle Yoga with Tarah Mancl” It will be a gentle vinyasa flow for the body, mind and spirit. In this practice we syn...

Michelle Grajkowski from 3 Seas Literary agency was kind enough to drive up from Madison to record a podcast with us, and to speak to our local National Novel Writing Month participants about the publishing industry. We had a discussion about publishing, query letters, literary agents, and more. Learn how literary agents find manuscripts and what you can do to give yours a better chance of making...

We have a short show for all the writers out there embarking on the journey that is NaNoWriMo. Every state is broken up into regions. These regions have forums on the NaNoWriMo website, and ML’s. An ML is a municipal liaison, someone who has previously written 50,000 words during a NaNoWriMo and now is helping out others in various ways. Today we here from our ML, Sarah. More MCMP podcasts at mcmi...

The McMillan Conversation Maker Podcast hosted by Colin from the McMillan Library. Local musician Galynne Goodwill joins us to discuss music, creative process, and local foods. She came equipped with a ukulele and guitar, which she used to play us a few songs at the end of the podcast. Find more of her music at Galynne.bandcamp.com More MCMP podcasts at mcmillanlibrary.org/podcast

Episode 2, the first full length podcast from the McMillan Library. We have Jennie Bahnaman, the Young Adult Services Manager, on the podcast to introduce us to the One Room Schoolhouse Project. She conducted interviews with community members who attended one room schoolhouses, and we feature one of them on the podcast. Visit us at mcmillanlibrary.org/podcast for archives and photos.

The inaugural episode of the MCM Podcast! Your host is a librarian from the McMillan Memorial Library, who delivers a little intro to the podcast, and news about NaNoWriMo. Next, a full episode coming soon... Visit us at mcmillanlibrary.org/podcast for archives and photos.

This is the theme to the McMillan Conversation Maker Podcast. Composed by Colin McGinnis and Eric Ross, recorded by Eric Ross. The tune is so good that we are making it available as a stand-alone download for your listening pleasure! It will become the familiar intro and outro to the MCM Podcast. Eric Ross has a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies as a part of the Butler School of Music at The...