All Library locations will be closing early Wednesday, November 26 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Saturday, November 29.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Author and historian Dr. Frances Levine discusses the trailblazing women who traversed the Santa Fe Trail between 1760 and the late 1870s. While many...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 2, 2025
1:30pm
In Person
In Big Night, two Italian immigrant brothers struggle to keep their restaurant open in 1950s New Jersey. Psychiatrist Manuel Morales and filmmaker and...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Computer code bootcamps provide students with accelerated training in computer programming and job skills with the dual end goals of upward social...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Donna Rae Pearson examines the lingering impacts of redlining and urban renewal and how each promoted residential segregation in communities...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 16, 2025
1:30pm
In Person
Babette’s Feast features an eye-opening French banquet in a remote 19th-century Danish village. Psychiatrist John Whipple and film critic Abby Olcese...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2025
3:00pm
Online
In Person
In Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery, editor and historian Sydney Norton presents a series...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 2, 2025
1:30pm
In Person
In Julie & Julia, a food blogger's ambition to prepare all the recipes in Julia Child’s landmark cookbook is intertwined with Child’s own passion for...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Musician and entertainer Cody Wyoming has been a part of the local, underground music scene for more than 30 years. But he’s also a music historian an...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 26, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
During the mid-19th century, a mass migration of pioneers traveled westward by wagon across rugged trails, wind-swept prairies, barren deserts, and fo...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 19, 2025
1:30pm
In Person
The 2025 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series explores our relationship with food as a way of understanding ourselves. Food is the language...