Tag: Iola Public Library
Iola Public Library will offer several holiday season programs for adults in December. Christmas Comedy Classics features the 1955 movie Were No Angels at 2 p.m. Thursday. Three convicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo…
The Iola Public Library is closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. The library will reopen at 9 a.m. Saturday.
When the late Harry Lee Sr. purchased LaHarpe Telephone Co. in the summer of 1950, wife Violet was less than thrilled. Violet had grown up in St. Louis and moved to Kansas City after World…
The residents of East Berlin pounded on Carl Slaughs brown Chevrolet van, their jubilant voices shouting as the family slowly inched toward Checkpoint Charlie. The van shook as the crowd jostled against it. It was…
Plucky children traveling on the Mississippi experiencing the tapestry of life as it existed then could this be Huckleberry Finn? No, its This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, but Twains classic is the…
Jennifer Nielsen, author of A Night Divided, a story of a girl and her family divided by construction of the Berlin Wall at the onset of the Cold War, will talk about her book Tuesday…
Iola Public Library has several programs for adults during November. Susan Booth of Booth/McIntosh Insurance will discuss What is Life Insurance at 7 p.m. Nov. 7. Booth will detail the importance of life insurance and…
Mike Myer, who recently donated a large telescope to the Iola Public Library, repeated the gesture Thursday by donating an even larger telescope to the Humboldt Public Library. The 8-inch Parks, Newtonian reflector telescope is…
One of the most anticipated novels of this fall is The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which debuted at number one on the New York Times best seller list. Remarkably, its the first novel by…
The fall Iola Reads book selection is A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen. The upper elementary/middle school level book is about Gerta, a girl in East Berlin who finds her family suddenly divided by the…
