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Housekeeping - Read It / Watch It Discussion Group

Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:30pm

Plaza Branch

You have read the Marilynne Robinson novel—now watch the film adaptation of Housekeeping (1987) starring Christine Lahti and dir...

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Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013

Central Library

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

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Writers at War: Literature and the Wartime Experience

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

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The Things They Carried

Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...

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Standing Up and Sitting Down: Protests and Dissent in the 1960s and Beyond

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...

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Viewing Vietnam: A Matter of Time and Place

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 6:30pm

Central Library

The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Ar...

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Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam

Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...

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Hollywood and the Vietnam War: Echoes of the War in American Film

Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...

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