Tour the West Side Market

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

10:30 am through mid-afternoon

Tour, lunch, book discussion and more!

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the Friends of the Library will offer a guided tour of the West Side Market. This historic Cleveland market features over 70 vendors showcasing a diverse array of ethnic foods. You'll find premium meats, fresh seafood, vegetables, baked goods, dairy products, cheeses, and even fresh flowers.

Rosemary Mudry, the Executive Director of the Cleveland Public Market Corporation, the new non-profit managing the WSM, will kick off the event with a sneak preview of the exciting renovation plans, including new spaces like a courtyard and a teaching kitchen. Discover the vision for transforming the Arcades, Alleys, and Mezzanine, and look for the ceramic sculptures of food and animals adorning many of the columns in the stunning Market Hall.

Afterwards, enjoy lunch at the Westside Market Café and participate in an informal discussion of the book Food Inc 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food (edited by Karl Weber). Following lunch, treat yourself to a dessert at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, known for its handcrafted ice cream made from local dairy and fresh, seasonal ingredients.

The Friends of the Library will cover the tour fee, but attendees are responsible for parking, lunch, and dessert costs.

Space on the tour is limited. Please register today at https://forms.office.com/r/wytjkcjwtD

Visit the West Side Market's website at WestSideMarket.org/.

Above: Water Color Image of the West Side Market Source:

Viktor Schreckengost Collection, Cleveland Memory Project https://www.clevelandmemory.org/

Connect with CSU Faculty

Featuring : Jeremy Genovese, PhD

Emeritus Associate Professor of Human Development and Educational Psychology

Presenting: ESPERANTO: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the International Language

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 

11:30 am – 12:30 p.m. 

Location: Michael Schwartz Library

Connection Lounge

(1st floor, west of the front desk)

The constructed language Esperanto was invented in 1887 to facilitate international communication and understanding. Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn with phonetic pronunciation and a simple, consistent grammar. The Esperanto movement grew rapidly but suffered a severe setback in the run up to the Second World War. The language was specifically condemned by Hitler. Stalin labeled it “the language of spies.” In recent decades, Esperanto has regained ground with the rise of the internet. Today the Esperanto movement is a growing transnational community of speakers who regularly communicate either virtually or in person.

This is a free event open to the campus

Meet and Greet Local Author

Eliese Colette Goldbach, CSU Alum and author of

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

April 2025

Eliese Colette Goldbach, a CSU Alum, is the Friends of the Library featured author presenting her book Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit during National Library Week, April 2025. Watch upcoming newsletters for more details!