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VIRTUAL - Joe Posnanski | The Baseball 100
Tue, September 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $45.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Tyler Kepner “Arguably the best pure long-form sportswriter in the land” ( Chicago Sun-Times ), Joe Posnanski is the bestselling author of six books, including in-depth accounts of golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, the 1975 Cincinnati…
Pickling as Preservation: Putting Up Our Harvest
Thu, September 30, 2021
6:00 P.M.
ONLINE
Join chef Shayla Felton-Dorsey for this online cooking program that highlights New Deal era cooking. Inspired by her Nana, Chef Shayla explores the interconnections of foods such as pickled mustard greens which provided families in large industrial cities during the 1930s with opportunities…
VIRTUAL - Fiona Hill | There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Thu, October 7, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register Known for her testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives during Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment hearings, Fiona Hill has more than 30 years of experience in foreign policy. The Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy…
Postcards!
Sat, October 9, 2021
11:00 A.M.
Oak Lane Library
Did you know that postcards were invented 152 years ago this month? Join us on the front lawn of hte library for a mail celebration! We will learn about Owney, a famous dog who was the mascot of the United States Postal Service in the 1800s and we will also learn how to address…
VIRTUAL - Keisha N. Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Tue, October 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $28.95-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson Keisha N. Blain ’s Set the World on Fire , a history of some of the early 20th century’s leading Black nationalist women, won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize and was named one of Smithsonian…
VIRTUAL - Adam Schiff | Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Mon, October 18, 2021
12:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $34.00-Book with Ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcaster The United States representative for California’s 28th congressional district and the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Adam Schiff was the lead manager for the first…
VIRTUAL - Wil Haygood | Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
Wed, October 27, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Writing “with perspective, understanding and compassion to burn” ( Chicago Sun-Times ), Pulitzer Prize–-nominated journalist Wil Haygood has, over a celebrated 30-year career, worked at the Boston Globe , Washington Post , and as a globetrotting…
Robert Costa | Peril
Fri, November 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15 ticket or $35 book with ticket
DETAILS TO COME Peril is the story of the end of one presidency and the beginning of another, and represents the culmination of Bob Woodward’s news-making trilogy on the Trump presidency, along with Fear and Rage . And it is the beginning of a…
For the Greatest Number: The New Deal Revisited
Now through Fri, February 4, 2022
4:58 P.M.
Print and Picture Collection
at
Parkway Central Library
It’s been ninety years since the crisis of the Great Depression inspired a New Deal of arts programs, infrastructure investment, and worker protections. The art and objects funded by New Deal programs show us how workers shaped the country in the 1930s. But it’s not just history. The…
For the Greatest Number: The New Deal Revisited
Now through Fri, February 4, 2022
4:58 P.M.
Rare Book Department
at
Parkway Central Library
It’s been ninety years since the crisis of the Great Depression inspired a New Deal of arts programs, infrastructure investment, and worker protections. The art and objects funded by New Deal programs show us how workers shaped the country in the 1930s. But it’s not just history. The…