The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 24, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
6:30pm
When The Kansas City Star profiled the 10 greatest departed heroes in the city’s history earlier this year, it started – naturally – with Ewi...
Signature Event
Monday, September 19, 2016
6:30pm
Claude Monet intended his most famous series of paintings – of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France – as a means of “peaceful meditati...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 18, 2016
2:00pm
President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to allo...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 17, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 17, 2016
1:00pm
Are you a fashion designer or manufacturer? Do you love Kansas City’s rich Garment District history? The nonprofit organization Rightfully Sew...
Signature Event
Friday, September 16, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Si...