This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 13 2024 Sat Tales for Tails: Lola 10:00am - 11:00am All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 13 2024 Sat 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. Apr 13 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains: Nebraska's Underground Railroad 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 13 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains: Nebraska's Underground Railroad 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Apr 17 2024 Wed Tales for Tails: Indy 4:00pm - 5:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 17 2024 Wed 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. Apr 20 2024 Sat Tales for Tails: Charlie 10:00am - 11:00am All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 20 2024 Sat 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. Apr 21 2024 Sun HPL @ Springfest 3:00pm - 5:00pm All Ages Offsite Event This event is in the "All Ages" group. Apr 21 2024 Sun HPL @ Springfest 3:00pm - 5:00pm All Ages 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. May 11 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Train Songs and Tales 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. May 11 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Train Songs and Tales 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Jun 8 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Mad Queen of the Prairies: The Frenzied First Years of the Nebraska Territory 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Jun 8 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Mad Queen of the Prairies: The Frenzied First Years of the Nebraska Territory 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Jun 22 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Echoes of an Era 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Jun 22 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Echoes of an Era 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Jul 20 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Heart's Compass: Women on the Trails 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Jul 20 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Heart's Compass: Women on the Trails 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Aug 31 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Patchwork of the Prairie 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Aug 31 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Patchwork of the Prairie 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Sep 28 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Sisters from Outlaw Trail: Riders of the Hoot-Owl Trail 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Sep 28 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Sisters from Outlaw Trail: Riders of the Hoot-Owl Trail 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Oct 12 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Andrew Carnegie 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Oct 12 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Andrew Carnegie 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Nov 9 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Overland Trails: The Children on the Trail 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Nov 9 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Overland Trails: The Children on the Trail 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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. Dec 7 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Sing Me a Story: The Ballad of Yesterday and Today 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Dec 7 2024 Sat Echoes of the Heartland: Sing Me a Story: The Ballad of Yesterday and Today 2:00pm - 3:00pm All Ages 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...