Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught... Read More
Signature Event Movies and Memories: Holiday Cheer Sunday, December 9, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia and their friends and families featur... Read More
Signature Event Movies and Memories: Moana Sunday, October 21, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families features... Read More
Signature Event Movies and Memories: The Joys of Laughter Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Humor, personified by the blundering but likable Mr. Bean, is the focus of the latest installment of the special, intergenerational movie series fo... Read More
Signature Event Johnny Mercer Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:30pm Central Library In Person New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),... Read More