Reher Reads: Recommended Books for December 2025
Looking for a good book to curl up with indoors this holiday season? Check out our recommended December reads for children, teens, and adults! Adult Picks
Reher Reads: Recommended Books for November 2025
Get ready to celebrate a holiday season full of food and gathering with these multicultural, food-focused recommended reads for November! Adult Picks
Holiday Recipes from Sadie Reher
Before you ever learn her story, the woman in this photograph already feels familiar to anyone who has visited Historic Reher’s Bakery. Sadie Reher, born in 1905 and one of nine siblings, grew up in the building that housed both the family’s home and their bustling bakery. While most of … Read More
Reher Reads: Recommended Books for October 2025
Happy Italian American Heritage Month! Want to celebrate with a good book? Check out our October list of recommended reads. Adult Picks
10 Italian Immigrants Who Shaped America
The story of the United States is inseparable from the stories of those who came to its shores seeking opportunity, freedom, and a place to build a life. Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more than four million Italians made that journey, leaving behind rural villages, political unrest, … Read More
Reher Reads: Recommended Books for September 2025
Celebrate National Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month with our September list of recommended reads! Adult Picks
Who Picks Your Rosh Hashanah Apples?
As many celebrate the Jewish New Year, tables across the world will be set with a familiar sweetness: crisp apples dipped into golden honey. This ritual marks the hope for a year of blessing, abundance, and renewal. Children delight in the stickiness, adults pause for a moment of tradition, and … Read More
Dough to Derby: Building the Reher Center’s Braided Thunder
Written by Olivia Rose When the Reher Center decided to enter this year’s Soapbox Derby, Board Member Nancy Donskoj’s last year as the lead facilitator of such a wonderful community event, we knew we couldn’t just build any car. It had to be something that spoke to our roots, our … Read More
Reher Reads: Recommended Books for August 2025
Want to get a few more books in before the summer ends? Check out our August list of recommended reads for kids, teens, and adults!📚 Adult Picks
Foreign-Born Founders: Immigrants Who Forged the United States
When we picture the founding of the United States, we often imagine powdered wigs, quills on parchment, and fiery speeches delivered by American-born patriots. However many of those who shaped the country’s earliest days, and informed what the country would become, were immigrants. Foreign-born soldiers, thinkers, and statesmen brought with … Read More