

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Club: "Custodians of Wonder" by Eliot Stein
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us in the Library's Cooper Room at 6:30pm to discuss a new book and meet new people! Books are available for check out until the meeting date.

Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory “readers” more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.

Climbing through Peru’s southern highlands, he encounters the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge every year from the fabled Inca Road System. He befriends a British beekeeper who maintains a touching custom of "telling the bees" important news of the day. And he crunches through a German forest to find the official mailman of the only tree in the world with its own address – to which countless people from across the world have written in hopes of finding love. These are just some of the last custodians preserving age-old rites on the brink of disappearance against all odds. Let Eliot Stein introduce you to all of them.
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- **Event Categories**: meetups, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Brookings
- **state**: SD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 515 3rd St, Brookings, SD, United States, South Dakota 57006
- **lat**: 44.30825
- **long**: -96.79606
- **full address**: 515 3rd St, Brookings, SD, United States, South Dakota 57006

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- **organizer**: Brookings Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/brookings-public-library/19284210)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 515 3rd St, Brookings, SD, United States, South Dakota 57006
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Brookings Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** meetups, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Book Club: "Custodians of Wonder" by Eliot Stein ?
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