All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Agatha Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan discusses her latest mystery, The Wrong Girl, about an i...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. B...