Enjoy Learning about History? Check Out What’s Going on at PPL’s Central Library
Do you enjoy learning about history? Providence Public Library invites you to find like-minded people, exchange ideas, and meet contemporary scholars and authors at its Central Library (150 Empire Street, Providence) during the following upcoming events. A complete schedule and detailed information on programs and events is available at www.provlib.org < http://www.provlib.org/> .
*At each starred event, books will be available for sale and signing through Brown University Book Store.
Sunday, March 8: Celebrate Irish History < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=89070> 1:30-2:30 pm: Lippitt Hall, 1st floor: Celebrating Ireland in Story & Song:
An interactive Irish music & storytelling event for whole families.
2:30-3:30 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd Floor: The Irish Ballad – A Lecture & Open Reading
Special Collections Librarian Rick Ring speaks about the Library’s extensive Irish Collection, with a focus on our Irish Ballads. Read or sing your favorite ballad aloud at the conclusion of the program!
*Thursday, March 12: Chief Justice Frank J. Williams (Ret.): Judging Lincoln < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=88413> 6-7:30 pm: Lippitt Hall, 1st floor
A lecture and book sale/signing in honor of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial.
Registration is required by emailing lmiller@provlib.org.
*Monday, March 16: The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum Theft < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=87403> 6-7:30 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd floor: Author Ulrich Boser:
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Presented in collaboration with the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Providence.
Registration is required by emailing lmiller@provlib.org.
Ongoing Exhibit through March 29
Hidden from History: Slavery in Rhode Island from its Inception to Its End < http://www.provlib.org/calendar.asp?id=88913> Open during Central Library regular hours. Special Collections Exhibit Area, 3rd Floor
Celebrate Women’s History Month
*Sunday, March 22
2-3 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd floor: Women’s History Month Author Elaine Weiss: < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=89316> Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of America in the Great War
Registration is required by emailing lmiller@provlib.org.
Monday, March 23
6:30-7:30 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd floor: Living Literature Presents < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=88205> : Pearls, Politics & Power—The Challenges Women Face in Public Life
*Monday, April 20: Hoaxers & Showmen in 19th Century N.Y.
6-7:30 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd floor: Author Matthew Goodman
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York.
Presented in collaboration with the Providence Athenaeum.
Sunday, May 17: A Secret Transcendentalist Affair?
2-3 pm: Trustee’s Room, 3rd floor: Author Visit & Book Discussion of Mr. Emerson’s Wife, a work of historical fiction
with author Amy Belding Brown and the New England Book Club.
Registration is required by emailing lmiller@provlib.org.
*Thursday, May 26: Discuss the USS Bunker Hill
6-7:30 pm: Barnard Room, 3rd floor: Author Max Kennedy
Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
Opening remarks by Ted Widmer, historian, librarian, and director of the John Carter Brown Library.
Registration is required by emailing lmiller@provlib.org.
HISTORY HIGH JINX Book Club < http://www.provlib.org/calendarcentral.asp?id=84021> Meets monthly on Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Registration is required by contacting Nancy: nancycallanan@cox.net March 2: Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
April 6: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
May 4: Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
