Homewood-Flossmoor Science Pub

03/13/2026

📅 Thursday, March 19
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve

Ever spotted a muskrat at the Preserve - without mistaking it for a beaver? 🦫

Many people haven’t! From year to year, muskrat numbers can rise and fall, but these often-overlooked animals play an important role in our wetlands.

Muskrats are natural “ecosystem engineers.” By building their lodges, they open up dense vegetation and create habitat that birds and other wildlife can use. To better understand this process, researchers have placed cameras at muskrat lodges to see how these changes affect wetland wildlife.

Join Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve for a fascinating talk on muskrats and their surprising role in bird conservation.

🎤 Speakers:

• Dr. Leo Chan Gaskins, community ecologist, David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the University of Chicago, and research partner with Audubon Great Lakes.

• Kayla Lindsay Fisher, Senior Stewardship Associate with Audubon Great Lakes, working on habitat restoration across the Calumet Region of Illinois and Indiana.

02/17/2026

Streaming on Netflix - A rather good docudrama called ‘Lead Children’ about industrial lead poisoning of a community in 1970s Communist Poland.

01/04/2026

Intriguing job opportunity on Pitcairn island 🇵🇳

The removal of invasive predators from island ecosystems delivers major conservation benefits. We are looking for an island restoration scientist to help realise these benefits by joining our ...

11/05/2025

Great night at Homewood Public Library for the screening of the documentary film ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’.

There is a second chance to view on the south side at on Wednesday night at Saint Xavier University

📅 Wednesday November 5
🕖 4:00pm
📍 Saint Xavier University - McGuire Hall

This compelling film explores the experiences of children living with selective mutism, a complex anxiety disorder that affects speech in social settings.



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11/04/2025

Tonight! - Documentary Screening: Selective Mutism – Getting the Word Out.

This compelling film explores the experiences of children living with selective mutism, a complex anxiety disorder that affects speech in social settings.

📅 Tuesday, Nov 4
🕖 7 PM
📍 Homewood Public Library

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, this is only the third public screening of the documentary!

💬 Q&A with the director to follow

✅ Free & open to all
Don’t miss this chance to learn, understand, and start the conversation.

11/04/2025

🎬 Documentary Screening: Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out

📅 Tuesday, Nov 4
🕖 7 PM
📍 Homewood Public Library

The film addresses the anxiety disorder impacting kids in social settings.

11/03/2025

Tomorrow (Tuesday) night at Homewood Public Library

🎬 Documentary Screening: Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out

📅 Tuesday, Nov 4
🕖 7 PM
📍 Homewood Public Library

Discover the story behind selective mutism, a complex anxiety disorder affecting speech in social settings.

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus, this is only the third public screening of the documentary!

💬 Q&A with the director to follow

✅ Free & open to all
Don’t miss this chance to learn, understand, and start the conversation.

11/02/2025

‘The First Martyr to Radio,’ a historic Homewood tragedy, gains a national audience.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Homewood resident Lester J. Wolf in July 1926 has gained national attention through an episode of the syndicated radio show and podcast Our American Stories, hosted by Lee Habeeb.

At the time, Wolf worked as a technician at WOK, one of Homewood’s earliest commercial radio stations, which broadcast with a 5,000-watt transmitter.

Historical records place the station’s transmitter near the Parson’s Ammonia Co. plant, the site now occupied by the Flosswood condominium complex.

On July 10, 1926, Wolf suffered a fatal accident while working on a circuit at the station and was electrocuted. He has since been remembered as radio’s “first martyr.”

The episode of Our American Stories highlights Wolf’s ambition and the promise of early broadcasting, while also illustrating the risks faced by pioneers working with emerging technology. The story draws from local historical society records and features a dramatic reenactment of the events.

Nearly a century later, this little-known local tragedy is reaching a national audience, while a display at the Homewood Historical Society ensures that Wolf’s story remains preserved in the community.

The death of 19-year-old Homewood resident Lester Wolf in 1926 is going national as an episode of the podcast Our American Stories.

11/02/2025

🎬 Documentary Screening: Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out

📅 Tuesday, Nov 4
🕖 7 PM
📍 Homewood Public Library

Discover the story behind selective mutism, a complex anxiety disorder affecting speech in social settings.

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus, this is only the third public screening of the documentary!

💬 Q&A with the director to follow

✅ Free & open to all
Don’t miss this chance to learn, understand, and start the conversation.

A Science Pub special screening of the documentary: ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’.

📅 Tuesday, November 4

🕖 7:00 PM

📍 Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway, Homewood, Illinois 60430

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus

Join us for a special screening of ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’, a compelling documentary that raises awareness about selective mutism - a complex anxiety disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak in certain social situations.

Don’t miss this important opportunity to learn more and spark conversation around this often-misunderstood condition.

Q&A with the director to follow.

Free and open to the public.

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10/24/2025

🎬 Documentary Screening: Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out
�📅 Tuesday, November 4
�🕖 7:00 PM
�📍 Homewood Public Library�17917 Dixie Highway�Homewood, Illinois 60430

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus

Join us for a special screening of ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’, a compelling documentary that raises awareness about selective mutism - a complex anxiety disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak in certain social situations.

Don’t miss this important opportunity to learn more and spark conversation around this often-misunderstood condition.

Q&A with the director to follow.

Free and open to the public.

https://www.facebook.com/share/17MqxnhTJu/?mibextid=wwXIfr

10/23/2025

A Science Pub special screening of the documentary: ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’.

📅 Tuesday, November 4

🕖 7:00 PM

📍 Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway, Homewood, Illinois 60430

🎥 Directed by Eve Keepings de Jesus

Join us for a special screening of ‘Selective Mutism – Getting The Word Out’, a compelling documentary that raises awareness about selective mutism - a complex anxiety disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak in certain social situations.

Don’t miss this important opportunity to learn more and spark conversation around this often-misunderstood condition.

Q&A with the director to follow.

Free and open to the public.

https://www.facebook.com/share/17MqxnhTJu/?mibextid=wwXIfr