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KPL TV: Kalamazoo History
What was Kalamazoo like 100 years ago, and what was going on around town? With the Kalamazoo Gazette for our…
Policies
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Pavilion Township
Sources and general information about the early schools in Pavilion Township, including an 1880 sketch about the township's first schools.
Alamo Township
Courtesy of Alamo Township Museum
Arts & Entertainment
Artist(s): Bootsy’s Rubber Band w/ The Floaters Date: 25 November 1977 Tickets: $6.50 (general admission) Attendance: (unknown) Notes: Kalamazoo Gazette,…
KPL TV: Kalamazoo History
KPL would like to thank all who attended Eastwood’s 113th celebration. The turnout was impressive, and the evening was filled…
General Topics
Two years before Kalamazoo’s devastating 1980 tornado, a storm of a different sort brought much of the Great Lakes and…
KPL TV: Teen
Tune in for a Zoom session with Erin from the Air Zoo. Young astrophysicists learn how rockets work by gaining…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"Monster's Ball" by Claire Davis & Eleri Watkins (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Invisible Abductor" by DyShauna Rutherford (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"MiGRAiNE" by Reid Riley (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Enigma" by Dominic Krupp (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The 1%: Crisis in the Great Lakes" by Griffin Olis (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Breathe" by Makenzie Hanfland (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"SafeNet Appliances" by Erick Hatter & Seamus Hyman (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Life of Paul" by Luke McGee (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"We Are Torn" by Logan R Workman (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"A Piece on the Board: Riddler Intro" by Erick Hatter (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Picturing" by Sylvia Gabriel & Aiden Standke (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Midnight Unicycling" by Annareetta Reponen (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Send Her Love" by Dorian Murphy & Emilee Emy (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Undertone" by Sylvia Gabriel & Aiden Standke (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival) 2017 Festival Finalist
"The Palm" by Sage Benner (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Chickening" by Emma Fergusson (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Tabletop" by Alex Hamilton (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Ode to Crayola" by Alex Hamilton (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"You Don't Know" by Camryn Bullock (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Resolution" by Seamus Hyman (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"New Game" by Logan R Workman (2017 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
The 14th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival, held at Chenery Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI, on Saturday, March 4, 2017, featured the…
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)
The 13th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival, held at Chenery Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI, on Saturday, February 20, 2016, featured the…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"GLP Sendoff" by Eric Hyde (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Happiness" by Caroline Hall & Juliea Labondie (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"It's Just a Phase" by Nathan Ginter (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Living Mountain" by Griffin Snow (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Northern" by Jake Lamons (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Broken Headlights" by Heather Rolison (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Lonely Goldfish" by Dorian Murphy (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Essence of the City: Kalamazoo" by Matthew Stanley (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Coming Home" by Noah Winne (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Evolution of a Ballerina" by Hannah Lane-Davies (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Ego" by Kennedy Shelton (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Apparition" by Justin Ward (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Winter (Est-ce que j'ai mentionné?)" by Yazmine Vargas (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Jack, and the Meaning of Life" by Jack Kison (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"What If" by Meredith Egeler (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Persistence vs. Procrastination" by Nathan Ginter (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Dear Lucy" by Heather Rolisondear (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Insanium" by Isaiah Terry (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Projektio Kartoitus T.O." by Thomas Outinen (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"WhitePeopleMeat.com" by Cruce Grammatico (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Soul of Bali" by Nathan Ginter (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Chance" by Hannah Lane-Davies (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Flip" by Dorian Murphy (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Tenebrosi Somnia" by Isaiah Terry (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Wonderful Wish Granting Cell Phone" by Andrew Sokolowski (2015 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
12th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival
The 12th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival, held at Chenery Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI, on Sunday, February 22, 2015, featured the…
KPL TV: Music & Concerts
State champion bluegrass fiddler Brad Phillips, national award-winning jazz percussionist Mike Shimmin, national champion soloist jazz bassist Andrew Kratzat, and…
KPL TV: Kalamazoo History
OHOW (Old House Owners Workshop) is a program of the City of Kalamazoo’s Historic Preservation Commission. OHOW seeks to create educational programs…
Ross Township
Sources and general information about the early schools in Ross Township, including an 1880 sketch about the township's first schools.
Biographies
Mary Mace Spradling, Martin Cohen, Shirley Miller. Undated Photo from KPL Archives The following text is taken from a brochure…
KPL TV: Music & Concerts
Return of the Red Sea Pedestrians (part 1)
Return of the Red Sea Pedestrians (part 2)
Return of the Red Sea Pedestrians (part 3)
The Red Sea Pedestrians brought their one-of-a-kind, high-energy, neo-Klezmer, full-blown, instrument-swapping fusion back to the Kalamazoo Public Library for an…
Focus: Mortality Schedules, 1850 and 1860
Michigan did not begin to record births and deaths until 1867, so events before that date were often difficult to…
Policies
The Kalamazoo Public Library is a district library, supported by the taxpayers of the Kalamazoo Public Library District. Print Version…
KPL TV: Instructional
Wings, knuckles, pins, latches, escutcheons, faceplates, and pulls. Oh my! All are things often beautifully crafted and decorative as well…
Databases
Find your ancestors in over 300 years of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and government reports. Search over 1,000 newspapers; the…
Providing indexing and full-text coverage of the most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Source is the authoritative database for current…
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research…
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