All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 25, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Wendy Wasserstein’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:30pm
Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony.
Even as the majestic struc...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City are...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil rights f...
Signature Event
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A panel of area composers discusses the enduring beauty and power of choral music. The next day – Saturday, March 3 – their latest works will premiere...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
6:30pm
President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6:30pm
Rebecca Solnit offers a guided tour of the Bay Area through her latest book, Infinite City, which reinvents...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Terrence McNally’s...