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Larry Burgess and Tom Atchley are offering their Redlands Local History class beginning on Tuesday, February 18, 2020. The class meets from 7:00 to 9:00 pm for eight consecutive Tuesdays ending on April 7 and is held in the Assembly Room of the Smiley Library.

The class, sponsored by the Library Board of Trustees, has a fee of $30.00 per person with the proceeds going to the Redlands Heritage Room

Burgess, Smiley Library Director emeritus, inaugurated the course in 1971 and a few years after was joined by Atchley, a teacher of history at Redlands High School, now retired. Burgess has written and lectured extensively about Redlands history, and Atchley is well known for his informative walking tours of Redlands neighborhoods, as well as for his talks.

Course subjects include people and places that influenced the founding of Redlands, its prehistory and geology, and climate and setting.  Topics include social and cultural history of organizations and government, crime and scandal, philanthropy, photographs and maps, colorful personalities, Redlands in literature and in film, and questions that class members may have about their town.

Reservations can be made either by e-mail at admin@akspl.org or by calling the Library Director’s Office at 798-7565.

The library will be closed for the following 2020 holidays:

A.K. Smiley Public Library’s “Southern California in Film” series continues on Saturday, February 15th at 2pm with a screening of Dragnet at the Contemporary Club.

An homage to the long-running television series of the same name, Dragnet parodies the crime drama with a new Sergeant Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) and his partner, Streebek (Tom Hank) as they investigate a series of murders. The movie was filmed throughout Los Angeles, including the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Zoo, and Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Registration is requested, but not required. No admission is charged for film screenings, thanks to the generous contributions of donors to the Library.  The Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka Street. For more information or to see schedule updates, visit www.akspl.org or call (909) 798-7632.

The Lincoln Memorial Shrine will honor Abraham Lincoln at the 88th annual Watchorn Lincoln Dinner on Wednesday, February 12 at 6:30pm in University of Redlands’s Orton Center. Dr. Douglas Egerton of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York will deliver a keynote address “The Experiment Has Begun: Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln and Black Troops”.

Attendance to the Lincoln Dinner is $49 for supporters of the Lincoln Memorial Association who give in January 2019, and $59 for the general public. Advanced reservations are required and will remain open until February 5, or until sold out, whichever comes first. For reservations or for more information, please call (909)798-7632 or email heritage@akspl.org.

 

Comedian / Preservationist, Darryl “D’Militant” Littleton, author of the just released This Day in Comedy: The Ethnic Encyclopedia of Laughter invites you to experience this hysterical and historical event that will spark the imagination.