South Haven Scott Club - Center for cultural programs since 1883

March 4, 2025: The Truth About Hospice

By Angela LaBarca, Community Relations, Corewell Health Hospice and Palliative Care

Understanding hospice and palliative care can be overwhelming for patients and their families. With so many myths about hospice care, this will be an opportunity to learn about the specialized care provided by local hospice care teams to include physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual care for anyone experiencing serious illness. Information on how care is paid for will be provided as well as the benefits of early admission. Angela will also offer information on primary care in the home, grief healing and education, veteran support services and advance care planning.

March 18, 2025: History of the Ladies’ Library Associations of Michigan

By Sharon Carlson, President, Kalamazoo Ladies’ Library Association

Ladies’ Library Associations existed in more than 100 communities in Michigan between the 1850s and early twentieth century. Many provided the first subscription-based library services, and some helped shepherd public libraries. This program will provide the background that made Michigan so well suited to these institutions and tell the stories of some of the women who helped promote this movement. It will also talk about the evolution and decline of the movement, as well as the tangible legacy these organizations left behind.

Sharon Carlson retired as head of Western Michigan University’s Zhang Legacy Collections Center in 2020. She is an archival and historical consultant and has worked for the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame and the Meijer Corporation. Ms. Carlson has graduate degrees in history and library science with the main focus of her dissertation research having been on ladies’ library associations in Michigan. She is currently the president of the Kalamazoo Ladies’ Library Association and has served as president of the Historical Society of Michigan.

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Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3 pm – Connor Austell

Piano Sonatas of Beethoven & Mozart
We are delighted to welcome back South Haven native, pianist and educator Connor Austell, who will perform on Sunday, March 16th at the historic South Haven Scott Club. Join us for a captivating hour-long concert featuring a selection of sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven.

In person at Scott Club:
RSVP by Mar 14 (required) to: info@scottclub.org
Livestream: Scott Club Facebook page &
Foundry Hall Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/foundryhall
FREE and open to all

Based in Lancaster, South Carolina, Connor Austell is a versatile musician and educator equally at home in the performance hall and in the lecture hall. A firm believer that scholarship and musicianship go hand-in hand, Dr. Austell’s teaching philosophy holds that decisions made in musical performance should be grounded in a historical, theoretical, and pedagogical understanding of the score. In 2022, Dr. Austell’s work in researching and recording the piano compositions of Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins was recognized with an award by the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Georgia. His debut album Blind Tom’s Creative Vision is available on all major streaming platforms, and his recent article on the piano works of Thomas Wiggins will appear in an upcoming edition of American Musical Perspectives.

Dr. Austell holds degrees from the University of Georgia, the University of Michigan, and Grand Valley State University, where he studied with David Fung, Arthur Greene, and Sookkyung Cho. He studied chamber music under the tutelage of Katherine Collier, Helen Marlais, and Pablo Mahave-Veglia, and has participated in masterclasses with world-class artists such as Jonathan Boss and Martin Katz. His enthusiasm for Baroque music was fostered by a study of harpsichord and organ technique with Gregory Crowell. Dr. Austell currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina Lancaster.

This concert is presented in collaboration with Foundry Hall and is supported in part by Holtec-Palisades, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.