 Upcoming events
Sean Chercover, Anthony Neil Small (May 15 at 7:00pm)
Interested: danbrady Added by lilithcat. Mystery Discussion Group (May 17 at 2:00pm) Title: California Fire & Life
Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter Meeting: Steve Bogira (May 18 at 1:00pm) "Courtroom 302" is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, ... (more)Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (May 24 at 3:00pm) Title: 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, & Debs, The Election that Changed the CountryAuthor: James Chace
Jennifer Faus (June 1 at 2:00pm) In this poignant account, we are introduced to the victims of the day that has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. On January 30th, 1972, the British Army deployed the 1st Parachute Regiment to conduct an arrest operation in Derry during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. Twenty-six civil ... (more)Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Jonathan Santlofer (June 5 at 7:00pm)
John Drummond (June 8 at 2:00pm) John Drummond returns to Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, but his 1st time in Forest Park to discuss & sign his latest Chicago Crime & Corruption book, It Ain't Pretty, But It's Real to follow his Thirty Years in the Trenches Covering Crooks, Characters & Cappers.
Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Ted Okuda, Mark Yurkiw (June 13 at 7:00pm)
Mystery Discussion Group (June 14 at 2:00pm) Date SwitchTitle: Forty Words of SorrowAuthor: Giles Blunt
Stephen Kinzer (June 17 at 7:00pm) Stephen Kinzer discusses A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth & the Man Who Dreamed It. The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men profiles one of the most successful revolutionaries of the modern era, telling the dramatic story of how he seized power in Rwanda and led this shattered country's astonishing recovery
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (June 29 at 2:00pm) Title: Franklin & Winston: An Intimte Portrait of an Epic FriendshipAuthor: Jon Meacham
Stephanie Kuehnert (July 10 at 7:00pm) Event location: The Beacon Pub, 101 Circle Avenue, Forest Park, IL 60130, (708) 366-7066
Daniel P. Smith (July 11 at 7:00pm)
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (July 12 at 2:00pm) Title: The Resurrection of Rome
David J. Walker and Margot Justes (July 20 at 2:00pm)
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (July 27 at 2:00pm) Title: Desert Queen: Extraordinary Life of Gertrude BellAuthor: Janet Wallach
Max Allan Collins (a.k.a. Patrick Culhane) (August 2 at 2:00pm)
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (August 9 at 2:00pm) Program: Art Livingston will talk about GKC's Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Mystery Discussion Group (August 16 at 2:00pm) Title: Murder of a Small Town HoneyAuthor: Denise Swanson
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (August 31 at 2:00pm) Title: Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars (Alebegensians)Author: Rene Weiss
Mystery Discussion Group (September 20 at 2:00pm) Title: Roots of EvilAuthor: Sarah Rayne
On This Day... (September 20 at 11:00pm) 1878: Birthday of Upton Sinclair candidate for governor of California and author of The Jungle, about the life of East European immigrants living & working in the Chicago stockyards in the early 20th century. It was supposed to cause concerns about the social ills of the country, but resulted in President ... (more)On This Day... (September 21 at 11:00pm) 1866: Birthday of H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells, writer of popular history & science fiction & extreme liberal of his time.1888: Sherlock Holmes concludes The Sign of Four in which Dr. John Watson, M.D. finds a wife, Miss Mary Morstan.1947: Birthday of horror writer, Stephen King1963: War Resisters League ... (more)On This Day... (September 23 at 11:00pm) 1865: Birthday of Baroness Orczy, Hungarian-English artist, playwright, & author of romantic novels & short detective stories(e.g.The Scarlet Pimpernel & Old Man in the Corner)1952: Then Vice President Richard M. Nixon gives Checkers speech denying acceptance of bribes while in office.
Jeanne M. Dams (September 27 at 2:00pm) Jeanne M. Dams reads from Indigo Christmas (A Hilda Johansson Mystery).
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (September 28 at 2:00pm) Title: Champagne: How War & Hard Times Gave Rise to the World's Most Glmorous WineAuthor:Don & Petie Kladstrup
On This Day... (October 3 at 11:00pm) 1922: Rebecca L. Felton is appointed the first woman U.S. Senator.1925: Birthday of American historical novel writer & Eastern liberal, Gore Vidal.1962: Under orders from President John F. Kennedy, U.S. closes ports to ships carrying cargo to Cuba.
On This Day... (October 4 at 11:00pm) 1877: Chief Joseph surrenders with the remnants of the Nez Perce, saying, "I will fight no more, forever."1902: The third marriage of Dr. John Watson, M.D. possibly to Violet de Merville.1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I.
On This Day... (October 12 at 11:00pm) 1492: Christopher Columbus discovers America (The Bahamas).1790: A Philadelphia newspaper reports possible war between Britain & Spain.1961: F.B.I. launches Socialist Worker Distruction Program.
On This Day... (October 22 at 11:00pm) 1962: President John F. Kennedy orders a blockade of Cuba, intensifying the Missile Crisis.
On This Day ... (October 24 at 11:00pm) 1648: Peace of Wetaphalia ends the Thirty Years War. It is said that in the train car in 1940 win the French surrendered to the Nazis, Adolph Hitler stated, "This is not for the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles, but for the injustices of The Peace of Westphalia."1945: The United Nations Charter ... (more)Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (October 26 at 2:00pm) Title: Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800Author: John Ferling
On This Day... (November 2 at 11:00pm) 1734: Birthday of the great American frontiersman, Daniel Boone.1920: Eugene V. Debs receives almost 1 million votes for U.S. President while in jail.
On This Day... (November 7 at 11:00pm) 1790: Several New York children were bled and put in warm baths as treatment for smallpox1837: Abolitionist editor, Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob in Alron, IL.
On This Day... (November 18 at 11:00pm) 1836: Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, English humorist and librettist who teamed up with English composer Sir Arthur Sullivan to produce such delightful operattas, Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore, and The Mikado.1872: Suffragist, Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting.1928: Birthday of Walt Disney's cartoon ... (more)On This Day... (November 22 at 11:00pm) 1916: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presents a medallion to Sherlock Holmes.1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX.
On This Day... (November 23 at 11:00pm) 1859: Birthday of William (Billy the Kid H. Bonney, future Western gunslinger and outlaw, in New York city.
On This Day... (November 25 at 11:00pm) 1914: Birthday of The Yankee Clipper, Joe Di Maggio.
On This Day... (November 27 at 11:00pm) Jehuda Reinharz. 1790: Governor St. Clair of the Northwest Territory wrote that Cincinnati was the most proper place for its capital.1874: Birthday of , Zionist leader and president of Israel in 1948. His important practical discoveries in organic chemistry helped the British munitions industry and gave him connections ... (more)On This Day... (December 2 at 11:00pm) 1954: The United States Senate censures Senator Joseph R. Mc Carthy of Wisconsin.1980: Four U.S. Catholic missionary women killed by Death Squads in El Salvador
On This Day... (December 4 at 11:00pm) 1790: A Philadelphia newspaper reported that the penalty for dueling in Sweden was the death of the survivor.1795: Birthday of Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist. His major works are The French Revolution and On Heroes and Her Worship.1867: The Grange was organized to protect farmers' interests.
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (December 7 at 2:00pm) Title: Six Frigates: Epic History of the Founding of the American NavyAuthor: Ian W. Toll
On This Day... (December 11 at 11:00pm) 1918: Birthday of modern Russian novelist, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
On This Day... (December 22 at 11:00pm) 1639: Birthday Of Jean Baptiste Racine, French tragic dramatist.
On This Day... (December 23 at 11:00pm) 1790: United States Senate formed a committee to consider a national bank.1947: President Harry S. Truman pardons 1,523 of 15,805 World War I Draft Resisters.
On This Day... (December 27 at 11:00pm) 1900: Prohibitionist, Carry Nation led the first bottle-smashing raid of a saloon in Wichita, Kansas.1980: The U.S. Post Office issues a stamp honoring Sequoyah, a Cherokee who invented the only known written language created by a North American Indian tribe, and still in use today.
On This Day... (January 3 at 11:00pm) 106 B.C.: Birthday of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman lawyer, orator, and statesman. After Julius Caesar's death, Cicero published the Philippics, a series of speeches attacking Mark Anthony, who had him put to death.1777: British defeated at Princeton, N.J. by the American colonists. 1893: Birthday of ... (more)On This Day... (January 14 at 11:00pm) 1796: A Bill to amend an act to promote the useful arts read for a second time in U.S. Senate.1899: Sherlock Holmes refused to cooperate with Inspector Lastrade's investigation of the murder Charles Augustus Milverton.
On This Day... (January 24 at 11:00pm) 1796: Arthur Campbell wrote to James Madison that he volunteerd to lead militia to take over western posts.1944: Birthday of mystery writer, Tim Heald.
On This Day... (January 28 at 11:00pm) 1905: The Adventure of the Second Stain was published in Collier's Magazine.
On This Day... (March 21 at 11:00pm) 1685: Birthday of German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
On This Day... (March 24 at 11:00pm) 1874: Birthday of world renowned & legendary magician & close friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry (Eric Weiss) Houdini.1916: Birthday of American mystery and western novelist; creator of Matt Helm, Donald Bengtsson Hamilton.
Past eventsEllen F. Steinberg (March 9 at 2:00pm) There will be a sampling of foods covered in the book prepared by Eleanor Hanson.
Beverle Graves Myers (March 11 at 7:00pm)
Laura Caudwell, Connie Fletcher, Marcus Sakey (March 20 at 7:00pm)
Raymond Benson (April 6 at 2:00pm)
Michael Stanley (April 11 at 7:00pm)
Michael Black (April 12 at 12:00pm)
Alex Matthews (April 13 at 2:00pm)
Mystery Discussion Group (April 19 at 2:00pm) Title: City of Glass (Vol.1 of N.Y. Trilogy) by Paul Auster
Libby Fischer Hellmann , Michael Allen Dymmoch (April 20 at 2:00pm)
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (April 27 at 2:00pm) Title: Great Mortality: Intimate History of the Most Devastating Plague (The Black Death)Author: John Kelly
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