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Enjoy the Meet the Authors event that took place earlier this month. Hear local favorites Arnold Johnston and Deborah Ann…
Guy H. Lockwood. Local History Room. A bold, colorful free-thinker who marched to the beat of a different drummer, Minneapolis-born…
Annette Conti takes us on a tour of the Delano farmhouse and talks about life on an early Kalamazoo area…
Tune in for a Zoom session with Erin from the Air Zoo. Young astrophysicists learn how rockets work by gaining…
Let’s get creative and paint some trees, in true Bob Ross fashion. Each month will feature a different theme but…
“Art in Early Kalamazoo” (1987) – From an historic Kalamazoo home, Lynn Houghton talks about early Kalamazoo art and artists.…
Artist(s): Waylon Jennings w/ Jessie Colter, and Asleep at the Wheel Date: 7 July 1978 Tickets: $6.50/$7.50 (reserved seating) Attendance:…
Of all the dance orchestras and concert ensembles that Kalamazoo produced during the 19th century, the Phillips Brothers’ Orchestra was…
The present “Whistlestop” restaurant began as a way station in a dream to run rail lines from Fort Wayne through…
In the early years of the 1950’s baseball was booming in Kalamazoo. On any given summer night, teams from local…
Print Version (PDF) Purpose The purpose of fund development for the Kalamazoo Public Library (KPL) is to secure funds for…
The author of John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age, Brian C. Wilson PhD. presents the remarkable…
KPL TV: Writers’ Block: Local Authors
Kalamazoo Public Library presents Writers Block, a forum where independently published local writers can tell the world about their work.…
Copies of most of our photographs are available on Flickr. If this is sufficient for your needs, simply save the…
Join us October 7 at Central Library during Art Hop for an immersive experience in observance of KPL’s 150th anniversary.…
The late Walter Dean Myers, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, talked about his work and answered questions. Powell Branch…
Barbed wire. Mustard gas. Machine-gun fire. No man's land. Colonel Joseph Burchnall Westnedge faced these deadly challenges daily as he…
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, individuals have been struggling with worry, anxiety and depression. The stress of living…
Local History and Genealogy News
The local history staff is thrilled to announce the addition of three databases to our offerings for genealogy research –…
In the last years of the Civil War, Dr. William H. Johnson built one of the distinguished examples of Italian…
Explora is EBSCO's research interface designed specifically for students and educators. The secondary school version features relevant and reliable content and easy-to-use functionality…
For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there’s no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on…
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of…
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 493 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 11,800+ newspapers from around…
Information on authors and literary movements and themes, includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Literary Criticism.