Wordish Wednesday

Name: Wordish Wednesday
Start: 2026-01-28T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-28T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 222 E. Main St, Niles, MI

Schedule

Wed Jan 28 2026 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

222 E. Main St, Niles, MI | Niles, MI

Bring a book and sip some tea! We will have the Alchemist's choice of tea in the samovar, with a suggested contribution of $2 for a bottomless teacup. Our regular menu will be available too, if you prefer.
Come alone, bring a friend, bring a group, or meet new folks here! The flowers will be out for you to indicate whether you prefer to be on your own, or if you welcome conversation.
Also happening at 6:30 you're welcome to join the discussion with the Apothica Book Club. They're back from winter break, and welcome you to join them as they foray into another novel to keep warm over the chilly months. This month's book is The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.
"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?
November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two men form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.