Upcoming Library Events and Programs for Adults

February 16, 2012

On the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, John Voehl, “Abe Lincoln Alive”, will perform at the Longmont Public Library. His enactment will feature Abraham Lincoln’s jokes and stories.  Lincoln used humor as a tonic for his own melancholy and as a tool to impart his messages.

Read an interview with Abe Lincoln

March 8 , 2012

In 1833, Benjamin Bonneville led a brigade of fur trappers out of Fort Osage, Missouri, near present Independence, bound for the far Rocky Mountains on a quest for fur. Although then a captain in the 7th U.S. Infantry, Captain Bonneville had been granted a two-year leave of absence to try his hand at being a fur trade entrepreneur.

Local author, Jerry Kennan, will give a lecture about the somewhat forgotten Bonneville expedition. Kennan's new novel, West of Green River, gives a historical, fictional account of this expedition.

April 19 , 2012

Margaret Tobin Brown, better known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown, is a well known name in Colorado history.  She made a name for herself outside of Colorado as well.  She arrived in Leadville, Colorado in 1886, and when the fortunes of the mining business smiled on her family, she became one of the state’s most prominent citizens.  A terrible accident, the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic, (can you believe this occurred one hundred years ago?) propelled her to international fame.  But where does the legend end and the real story begin?  Chautauqua presenter Mary Jane Bradbury will bring Mrs. Brown’s story to life on April 19, 2012

May 10, 2012

Just in time for Summer, join Derice FefferKorn as she gives instruction on creating the "attractive vegetable garden."