All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have bee...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Jason Kendall knows baseball inside and out. Emphasis on the inside.
The former Kansas City Royals catcher, whose career...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1982-83, William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, a chronicle of traveling America’s back roads, spent 4...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society and the Westport Branch Library present William (Bill) Bundschu: Abuse and Murder on the Frontier...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Mary Roach, designated as “America’s funniest science writer” by The Washington Post, takes us on a tour of the alimentary c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell conducts a public conversat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Does the 2008 financial collapse lie at least in part at journalists’ feet?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Dean St...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book, business management and leadership expert Joel Kurtzman makes the argument that America remains by fa...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 23, 2014
2:00pm
After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lincol...