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Sandra Farag - Where You Were When: Remembering 9/11 Twenty Years Later.
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Amy Alcenius-Hoisington - Where You Were When: Remembering 9/11 Twenty Years Later.
Where You Were When - Remembering 9/11
Today’s teens have only lived in a post-September 11th world. Now we will connect the past to the present by…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"The Pitch" by Eric Hughes (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Just for That" by Zak Sliuzas (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Unsteady" by Ryan McDonald (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Luminous" by Sara Elfring & Emily Edlefson (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Polaroid" by Lily Dorstewitz (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Don't Text, You Could Be Next" by Tristan Jansheski (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"A love letter to my wonderfully flawed self" by Hannah Lane Davies (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Once Upon A Time" by Dorian Murphy (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Caravan" by Elisha Barnett (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Looking Back at the Early 2000's" by Nate Ginter (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Lightning Gloves" by Omari Sadiq (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Confidence" by Izze Fahl (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Fallen Love" by Justin Ward (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Cryptorchid" by Logan Workman (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Hopeless Romantic" by Hannah Lane Davies (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Punch" by Kennedy Shelton (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Danger Boy" by Harrison Fischer (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Still Memories" by Ryan McDonald (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"A Snow Day in the Life of a Cat" by Evan Korycki (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"God Bless Craig" by Nate Ginter (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Winter Weather" by Elisha Barnett (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Upgrade" by Zak Sliuzas (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Faith and Fear" by Emma Tiongson (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Nest Egg" by Hannah Spangler (2016 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
Teen Filmmaker Festival 2016
The 13th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival, held at Chenery Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI, on Saturday, February 20, 2016, featured the…
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 1)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 2)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 3)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 4)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 5)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 6)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 7)
Drew Nelson In Concert (part 8)
Drew Nelson In Concert @ KPL
Singer/songwriter/storyteller Drew Nelson returns to Kalamazoo Public Library for a full concert on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, as part of…
Eastwood Branch's 113th Anniversary Celebration - Celebrating Kalamazoo's Eastside
KPL would like to thank all who attended Eastwood’s 113th celebration. The turnout was impressive, and the evening was filled…
The Immigrant Story (part 1)
The Immigrant Story (part 2)
The Immigrant Story (part 3)
The Immigrant Story (part 4)
The Immigrant Story (part 5)
The Immigrant Story
A panel of photographers and immigrants explore why people immigrate to the United States and share their experiences assimilating into…
Kinetic Affect @ KPL
Kalamazoo’s own spoken word duo, Kinetic Affect (Gabriel Giron and Kirk Latimer), returned to Kalamazoo Public Library on Wednesday, July…
Early Recollections of Kalamazoo County
“Early Recollections of Kalamazoo County” was originally drafted in the early-to-mid 1930s by Lucien Harding Stoddard, an early resident of…
Pioneer Cemetery (South West Street) (Westnedge Park)
Pioneer Cemetery (South West Street) (Westnedge Park) Location: East side of South Westnedge between Ranney Street and Park Place. Status: Inactive, converted…
Alamo Avenue School
Location: District #14 – Section 7, west side of Nichols Road at intersection with Alamo Avenue. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by…
Kalamazoo Funeral Homes
In Kalamazoo’s earliest days, there were no funeral homes in the sense that we know them, or even “undertakers,” but…
Megan Dooley & Dooley Noted @ KPL
Dooley Noted appeared at Central Library on August 19, 2009, as part of KPL’s Live Music series.
Borgess
At the end of the 19th century Kalamazoo was home to a number of doctors and even an Academy of…
KPL TV: Archival Films & Video
Kalamazoo Public Library in 1939
A silent promotional film made in 1939 to promote Kalamazoo Public Library services. Included are views of downtown Kalamazoo, patrons…
Author Mark Wedel talks about ‘Mule Skinner Blues’
Kalamazoo, MI journalist and author Mark Wedel spent the month of May 2017 pedaling his cheap cruiser-type bicycle from Pittsburgh,…
Jacqueline Woodson Lecture
“What will Jacqueline Woodson’s legacy be both on children’s literature and on the worlds of the people who get to read…
LaCrone, William L.
William L. Lacrone William L. LaCrone’s influential tenure as the superintendent of the city’s parks and forestry division (1911-1935) was…
Fee-Based Service Policy
Print Version (PDF) The Kalamazoo Public Library is committed to the provision of public library lending services without direct charges…
Baseball in Kalamazoo: Black Teams
From as early as 1877 or before, Kalamazoo’s leading African American baseball players were forming independent teams and successfully squaring…
Cox School/Pershing School
Location: District #6 – Section 24, southeast corner of Center Street and Cox’s Drive. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm.…
Williams School transportation statement, 1951-52
Courtesy of Alamo Township Museum
Databases
Small Business Reference Center
Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools…
LitFINDER
Poetry index of 600,000 poems with 50,000 full text. Short Story Finder offers full text, explanations, biographies. Over 1,000 complete…
Biography Resource Center
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and…
Consumer Health Information--Arabic
Consumer Health Information offers detailed answers to the 200 most-commonly-asked health questions. Supporting the needs of patrons and patients, these…
Biography in Context
Biographical information of contemporary & historical figures.
