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 George H.W. Bush: Life to the Fullest Wednesday, June 26, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: This Little Piggy Sunday, May 13, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha... Read More
Signature Event We're Going on a Bear Hunt Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Lion Lessons Sunday, March 11, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engag... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: The Lion and the Mouse Sunday, February 11, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, spotlighting Jerry Pinkney’s Cal... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Snowball Fight Sunday, January 14, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallo... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Sunday, December 10, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Eric Litwin’s Pete the C... Read More