On April 6, 2007, Libraries’ Kentucky Live! program presented Kristin Johannsen, author of Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant at Barnes & Noble Booksellers. She talked about ginseng’s growth in America, particularly in Kentucky, and its trade with China and Asia in history and at present.
If you missed the presentation, you can listen to her lecture or subscribe to the podcast and listen on the go. At the same time, you may also view photos of the event.
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Kim Edwards visited Bowling Green to discuss and sign her book. Readers had already met her on March 1, 2007 at Western Kentucky University’s Helm Library and Bowling Green Public Library.
You’ll still have a chance to meet her and let her sign your books on March 2, 2007 at Barnes and Noble at 10:00 a.m.
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WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places†international lecture series program presented Antarctica with Dr. Michael Trapasso on February 15 at Barnes & Noble.
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Kentucky Live! program organized by the WKU Libraries presented “Historic Kentucky” by Photographer James Archambeault at Barnes & Noble on February 8.
If you happened to miss the event, you can view a photo album of the event. You can also listen to the recording of the lecture or subscribe to this Podcast to listen to it on the go.
For more than 20 years, Archambeault has worked as an independent photographer specializing in nature and landscape. His work has appeared in many national publications including Architectural Digest, National Geographic and Time-Life Books, to name a few, and has been exhibited in most of the premier art shows. Learn more at http://www.jamesarchambeault.com/.
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Black History Month @ your Library is a partnership project of Western Kentucky University Libraries, Barnes & Noble, Bowling Green Public Library and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. To learn more visit: www.sokybookfest.org
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This Thursday, November 16, 2006, Ronald Messier, Professor of Middle East history at Vanderbilt University, talked about Medieval Morocco in our Faraway Places series at Barnes & Noble. Prof. Messier directed the excavation of the ancient city of Sijilmasa in southeastern Morocco, famous for its gold trade and its contacts with Timbuktu and other cities in West Africa. Since 2004 he has been at work excavating medieval Aghmat 30 km from Marrakech, the chief commercial and cultural center of the region prior to the arrival of the Almoravids.
If you missed out the lecture, you may view a photo album of the event and download the Podcast of his talk.
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Kentucky Live! presented Dr. James C. Klotter on “Political Scandals in Kentucky” on the evening of November 9 in Barnes & Noble.
James Klotter is the author, coauthor or editor of seventeen books. Notable among these include: Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor and American Manhood, A New History of Kentucky, and Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900-1950. The Kentucky Live! lecture series are sponsored by The Friends of the WKU Libraries & Museum.
If you missed out, here is an album of selected photos of the event. If you missed out, you can listen to the lecture via our Podcast.
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Kentucky Live presented Larry Kass, Director of Corporate Communications for Heaven Hill Distilleries Thursday, October 12 at Barnes & Noble. If you missed the event, here is a photo album for you to view. A podcast of the event is available now.
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Award-winning author Lynn Hightower gave a presentation Thursday, September 14th 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Bowling Green, KY.
The event was one of a series of the Libraries’ Kentucky Live! program sponsored by Friends of the Library and Museum.
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On the evening of Thursday, September 21, Haiwang Yuan, author of The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese, gave a presentation at Barnes & Noble on the topic of “Tales from the Han Chinese and What They Tell Us.” He also signed his books the audience purchased. Over seventy people from the community and WKU attended the lecture. Many of them were WKU students.
View an album of selected photos of the event. The podcast of the event is available.
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