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Signature Event
Sunday, April 25, 2010
3:30pm
You have read the Marilynne Robinson novel—now watch the film adaptation of Housekeeping (1987) starring Christine Lahti and dir...
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Monday, September 27, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
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Monday, October 18, 2010
8:30pm
American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:30pm
During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...