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Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
6:30pm
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 end o...
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Friday, July 5, 2024
5:30pm
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Drew Daywalt's book, The Day the Crayons Quit, is about a boy who just wants to color. We’ll have crafts inspired by Daywalt’s story about a box of cr...
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Friday, July 19, 2024
5:30pm
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Curious kids ask questions and are encouraged to pursue the answers in Andrea Beaty's series, The Questioneers. We’ll celebrate perseverance, creativi...
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Friday, July 26, 2024
6:00pm
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Babaloo brings his unique music and comedy all the way from St. Louis, Missouri. His performance is described as a “riotous and raucous affair, with s...
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Friday, July 12, 2024
6:00pm
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In the culmination of arts educator John Mulvey’s weeklong Young Actors Workshop at the Library for children ages 3 to 18, preschoolers act out a stor...