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Cities H through M

Date/Time

Title

Sponsor/Location

Halstead

Mar 18
7 PM

There’s Nothing the Matter with Kansas, but At Times It is Peculiar with Phillip D. Thomas

Halstead Public Library, (316) 835-2170. Location: Kansas Learning Center for Health, 505 Main St.

Hanover

Jun 21
5 PM

Home on the Range: Kansas Folklore with Jim Hoy

Hollenberg Station Station Historic Site, 2889 23rd Rd, (785) 337-2635

Haysville

Mar 15
7 PM

Farewell to Manzanar by J. W. Houston & J. D. Houston in the TALK series Between Fences with Kim Stanley

Haysville Community Library, 210 S Hays Ave., (316) 524-5242

Mar 29
7 PM

Fences by August Wilson in the TALK series Between Fences with Janet Juhnke

Haysville Community Library, 210 S Hays Ave., (316) 524-5242

Apr 12
7 PM

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle in the TALK series Between Fences with Gene T. Chávez

Haysville Community Library, 210 S Hays Ave., (316) 524-5242

Apr 26
7 PM

The Wire-Cutters by Mollie E. Moore Davis in the TALK series Between Fences with Phillip D. Thomas

Haysville Community Library, 210 S Hays Ave., (316) 524-5242

Hill City

Mar 23
7 PM

Secrets of the Tsil Café by Thomas Fox Averill in the TALK series Food for Thought with Thomas Prasch

Graham County Public Library, 414 N. West St., (785) 421-2722

Apr 20
7 PM

Empire Falls by Richard Russo in the TALK series Food for Thought with Janet Juhnke

Graham County Public Library, 414 N. West St., (785) 421-2722

Hutchinson

Mar 16
6:30 PM

None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer in the TALK series Women Around the World with Alan S. Lubert

Hutchinson Public Library, 901 N. Main St., (620) 663-5441

Apr 1
6:30 PM

The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien in the TALK series Women Around the World with Linda M. Lewis

Hutchinson Public Library, 901 N. Main St., (620) 663-5441

Apr 29
6:30 PM

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel in the TALK series Women Around the World with Martha Ortiz Sanchez

Hutchinson Public Library, 901 N. Main St., (620) 663-5441

Independence

Mar 25
7 PM

DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather in the TALK series Native American Mysteries with Martha Ortiz Sanchez

Independence Public Library, 220 E. Maple St., (620) 331-3030

Apr 15
7 PM

Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry in the TALK series Native American Mysteries with Denise Low

Independence Public Library, 220 E. Maple St., (620) 331-3030

May 15
7 PM

Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman in the TALK series Native American Mysteries with Sandra Wiechert

Independence Public Library, 220 E. Maple St., (620) 331-3030

Junction City

Mar 22
2 PM

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed in the TALK series On the Lighter Side with Brenda Craven

Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. 7th St., (785) 238-4311

Jun 13
2 PM

Oceans of Kansas with Michael J. Everhart

Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. 7th St., (785) 238-4311

Kansas City

Mar 9
1 PM

Bone Game by Louis Owens in the TALK series Urban Indians: Native American Writers of the 1990s with Trish Reeves

Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, (913) 281-8908. Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 5010 Parallel Pkwy

Mar 23
1 PM

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power in the TALK series Urban Indians: Native American Writers of the 1990s with Denise Low

Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, (913) 281-8908. Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 5010 Parallel Pkwy

Apr 6
1 PM

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie in the TALK series Urban Indians: Native American Writers of the 1990s with Sandra Wiechert

Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, (913) 281-8908. Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 5010 Parallel Pkwy

Apr 20
1 PM

Tracks by Louise Erdrich in the TALK series Urban Indians: Native American Writers of the 1990s with Trish Reeves

Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, (913) 281-8908. Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 5010 Parallel Pkwy

Kingman

Mar 9
7 PM

World’s Largest Things: Roadside Attractions with Erika Nelson

Talk of the Month, (620) 532-3331. Location: VFW Hall, 126 N. Main St.

Kinsley

Mar 4
12 Noon

Kansas and Kansans through the Lens of F. M. Steele with Jim Hoy

Kinsley Public Library, 208 E. 8th St., (620) 659-3341

Lakin

May 17
11:30 AM

The Story of Nicodemus with Angela O. Bates

Kearny County Library, (620) 355-6674. Location: Kearny County Senior Center, 305 N. Kansas Ave.

Lawrence

Mar 25
4-6 PM

The U.S. Senate, 1960-2010: Changing the "Slow" Institution symposium

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Dr., (785) 864-4900

Mar 26
8:30 AM -
1 PM

The U.S. Senate, 1960-2010: Changing the "Slow" Institution symposium

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Dr., (785) 864-4900

Apr 1
7 PM

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark in the TALK series The Best of the West with Joyce Thierer

Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., (785) 843-3833

Apr 15
7 PM

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig in the TALK series The Best of the West with Marilyn E. Klaus

Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., (785) 843-3833

Apr 29
7 PM

Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry in the TALK series The Best of the West with Erin Pouppirt

Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., (785) 843-3833

May 13
7 PM

Shane by Jack Schaefer in the TALK series The Best of the West with Kevin J. Rabas

Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., (785) 843-3833

Leavenworth

Mar 13
10:30 AM

Kansas Women in the Civil War with Diane Eickhoff

Leavenworth County Historical Society, Carroll Mansion, 1128 5th Ave.

Lenexa

Mar 5
10:30 AM

Esperanza's Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón in the TALK series Hispanic Heritage: Mothers, Sisters, & Daughters with Marilyn E. Klaus

Lakeview Village Retirement Community, 9100 Park St., (913) 744-2417

Mar 11
7 PM

Trabajando en el Ferro Carril (Working on the Railroad) with Gene T. Chávez

Monticello Community Historical Society, 23860 W. 83rd Ter., (913) 667-3706

Apr 2
10:30 AM

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros in the TALK series Hispanic Heritage: Mothers, Sisters, & Daughters with Carmaletta M. Williams

Lakeview Village Retirement Community, 9100 Park St., (913) 744-2417

May 7
10:30 AM

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez in the TALK series Hispanic Heritage: Mothers, Sisters, & Daughters with Sandra Wiechert

Lakeview Village Retirement Community, 9100 Park St., (913) 744-2417

May 13
7 PM

Band of Sisters: Kansas World War II Nurses with William S. Worley

Monticello Community Historical Society, 23860 W. 83rd Ter., (913) 667-3706

Manhattan

Mar 14

Ike and Obama: Kansas Roots, Troubled Fathers, Civil Rights with David A. Nichols in the project Kansas Reads...Dreams From My Father

Manhattan Library, 629 Poyntz Ave., (785) 776-4741

Mar 25
7 PM

Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry in the TALK series Coming of Age in Rural American with William Clyde Brown

Manhattan Library Association, 629 Poyntz Ave., (785) 776-4741

Apr 29
7 PM

Good Land by Bruce Bair in the TALK series Coming of Age in Rural American with Gene T. Chávez

Manhattan Library Association, 629 Poyntz Ave., (785) 776-4741

Sep 19
2 PM

The German Heritage of Kansas with William D. Keel

Riley County Genealogical Society, (785) 565-6495. Location: Meadowlark Hills Retirement Center, 2121 Meadowlark Rd

Matfield Green

Apr 10

Return to PrairyErth film screening

Pioneer Bluffs Foundation, 695 Kansas Hwy 177, (620) 753-3484

Mount Hope

Mar 29
7 PM

Miriam’s Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich in the TALK series Food for Thought with Steven Foulke

Mount Hope Public Library, 109 S. Ohio St., (316) 667-2665


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