The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2018
2:00pm
Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 28, 2018
2:00pm
In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 3, 2017
2:00pm
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley joins Jonathan Bender, an editor for KCPT - Kansas City PBS, in discussing Kansas City’s gangland past...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Army Command...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:30pm
During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2:00pm
Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 10, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...