Upcoming Library Events and Programs for Adults

Longmont's Reading - Connie Willis

Library Staff have selected a collection of Connie Willis titles for our public to enjoy. On June 1, copies of several titles will be available for check-out.

On August 8, 2013, Connie will visit with us to talk about her books, her writing style and writing in general.

Connie Willis—one of today’s most respected American science fiction writers—will speak about her writing and research process.  Among other honors, she has won ten Hugo and six Nebula Awards.  She was also the first American to be shortlisted for the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke science fiction award in 2002.  Some of her most recent books include: All About Emily (2012), Blackout (2010), and All Clear (2010).  A native of Colorado, she lives in Greeley with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado.  She has one daughter, Cordelia.C

June 6, 2013 Culture in the Third Reich: Propagating the Nazi Worldview

Mary Ann Grim will discuss the efforts of Hitler and the Nazi authorities to regulate, direct, and censor German culture. National Socialism represented much more than a political movement. When Hitler came to power in January 1933 he desired more than to gain dictatorial power, to revise the Versailles Treaty, and to regain and expand upon those lands lost after a humiliating defeat in the First World War. He also wanted to change the cultural landscape: to return the country to traditional “German” and “Nordic” values, to excise or circumscribe Jewish, “foreign,” and “degenerate” influences.

June 13, 2013 Gettysburg, Pivotal Turning Point in the Civil War

CSU professor Robert Gudmestadwill give a talk about this important event.  The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.   Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.

On the sesquicentennial of this great event we invite you to join CSU Assistant Professor of history, Robert Gudmestad as he talks about Gettysburg,