The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 5, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 8, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from comedian Michael Ian Black’s Naked!, the hilarious book about a boy who r...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from the book by award-winning author and illustrator John Rocco about the wonder of a winter storm – in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...