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Tales for Tails: Lola

10:00am - 11:00am
All Ages
Library Branch: Main Branch
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Great for reluctant readers, the Tales for Tails program offers a fuzzy listening ear from certified therapy dogs that gives an inviting space for readers to practice their reading skills. Stop by the 2nd floor and visit Lola, the loveable Goldendood...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Bill Hayes discusses the issue of slavery in the U.S. during the 1850s, the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and how the issue affected people moving to the Nebraska Territory. The presentation describes the overall history of the Und...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.

Tales for Tails: Indy

4:00pm - 5:00pm
All Ages
Library Branch: Main Branch
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Great for reluctant readers, the Tales for Tails program offers a fuzzy listening ear from certified therapy dogs that gives an inviting space for readers to practice their reading skills. Stop by the 2nd floor and visit Indy, the loveable Beagle who...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.

Tales for Tails: Charlie

10:00am - 11:00am
All Ages
Library Branch: Main Branch
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Great for reluctant readers, the Tales for Tails program offers a fuzzy listening ear from certified therapy dogs that gives an inviting space for readers to practice their reading skills. Stop by the 2nd floor and visit Charlie, the loveable Goldend...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.

HPL @ Springfest

3:00pm - 5:00pm
All Ages
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Room: Other Location
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Community Event
Event Details:
The Bookmobile is back at Springfest at Prairie Loft! Come check out books, play with our sensory activity, and do a small craft! For more information, visit the prairieloft.org website! ...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
What is it about trains that so easily engages one’s imagination? Climb aboard with David Seay as he shares a variety of railroad inspired songs and stories that offer peeks into the past from a wide variety of points of view. This upbeat excursion i...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
How do you establish a territory? Probably not the Nebraska way, where the seat of government shifted from town to town, where governors were changing every year – sometimes every few months – and where the banks printed their own money. Yet Nebraska...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Paul Siebert presents a musical living history program of a family’s journey from Russia to Nebraska in the 1870’s. Using original and period music with up to seven different acoustic instruments, storytelling, personal family history, period costume...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Writer and songwriter, Deb Carpenter-Nolting presents original poems, songs, and stories, as well as actual diary entries of pioneer women who journeyed on the Oregon Trail and crossed the Plains in the 19th century. Hear the voices of Nebr...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Yvonne Hollenbeck presents a trunk show of approximately 30 quilts made by members of the same family spanning 135 years. The stories behind both the quilters and the quilts themselves are shared and accompanied with some of Hollenbeck’s own cowboy a...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Sisters Marci and Teresa, having grown up along Highway 12, Nebraska’s Outlaw Trail, incorporate their rural experience and research into narrative cowboy poetry and music. Using props and a visual presentation, they explore topics such as the outlaw...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
After his selling of United States Steel Company in 1901 and amassing a fortune equivalent to over $75 billion today, Andrew Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy, specifically in the building and funding of public libraries. By the t...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
With over 352,000 emigrants traveling the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails, 1 in 5 were under the age of 16. Using journals kept by these youths, scholar and educator Renae Hunt discusses how these children traveled and tells some of their stori...
This event is in the "All Ages" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Monthly Program
Event Details:
Whether it be the ballad of the immigrant of the 1800’s or the ballad of today, these songs tell the story of life and living, the good and the bad. Pat Boilesen explores the differences and similarities between the ballads of yesteryear and the ball...