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Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’s 2...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They have tro...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
Henry F Hoit designed many of Kansas City’s most iconic commercial and residential buildings, including the Kansas City Power & Light Building, th...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City was historic – the last major U.S. political convention in which the presidential nomination wa...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 30, 2016
2:00pm
Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2:00pm
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwest m...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...