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Ruiz Seed Library Workshop - The Beauty of Monarch Butterflies

Saturday, May 9, 2015 10:30am

Irene H. Ruiz Branch

In Person

As a six-year-old child, local artist and gardener Dean Bracy observed what seemed like hundreds of monarch butterflies feeding on a butterfly bush an...

Canoeing the Great Plains

Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived...

A Defining Moment: The “Greatest Generation” in the White House

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Among our “greatest generation” was a succession of U.S. presidents who were informed and defined by World War II. Harry Truman, who oversaw the en...

More Than a Season: Building a Championship Culture - Dayton Moore, Matt Fulks

Monday, May 4, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager...

The Economic Value of Teacher Quality - Eric Hanushek

Thursday, April 30, 2015 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-averag...

Powers of Two - Joshua Wolf Shenk, Robert Day

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Granted, there are creative lone wolves out there. But history and social psychology tell us that success stems far more often from one-to-one coll...

The Postwar Dream Home: The Ranch House

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

The ranch house became an integral part of the vocabulary of the U.S. housing market after World War II, when the demand for a single-family home reac...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...

Jam on the Vine

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...

History on a Piece of Cloth: Kansas Flour Sacks

Sunday, April 19, 2015 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their fa...

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