The Bookmobile will not be at any stops this week for scheduled maintenance. We will resume a normal schedule Tuesday, May 28.
Matt is a Public Service Specialist for the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. His areas of responsibility include outreach library services to nursing homes, senior, retirement and congregate living centers; service to homebound library users; the Kansas Talking Books service; Book Group in a Bag program and the history and sports neighborhoods of the library’s nonfiction collection. Matt also works on technology issues and special projects for the library, including supporting the Red Carpet Service’s Adaptive Computer Center, civic engagement and civil political discourse.
Contact Matt at mpettit@tscpl.org
Each Memorial Day weekend since 1911, hundreds of thousands of race fans gather at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”. The Indy500 is a 200-lap race on a 2.5 mile course. 33 drivers compete for the Borg-Warner Trophy, introduced in 1936, which proclaims the event as the “Indianapolis 500-Mile Race”. Traditionally, [...]
Charles Curtis (1860-1936) is a superstar in the history of Topeka and the state of Kansas, having served the public in Congress as a representative and senator, then as vice president under Herbert Hoover. He had the honor of opening the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1932 on behalf of the president (Hoover, tied up [...]
In a previous post, I said “If you were anybody in the 1960’s and 1970’s, you probably appeared on detective shows like Columbo and Mannix.” Very nearly the same thing can be said about series later in the 1970’s and early 1980’s like The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. The Love Boat was an Aaron [...]
Peter Falk (1927-2011) certainly led an interesting life. Educated, having earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University, he quickly left public service for the stage and later the screen. He landed film roles starting in the late 1950’s like Murder Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and [...]
“It’s not traditional art, it’s not fine art and I don’t try and tell anyone that it is.” –Bob Ross The Happy Painter “If I ran home, I got to watch Bob Ross!” –Jason Talbot Co-founder, Artists for Humanity Bob Ross was a fixture on public television for years. His show The Joy of Painting [...]
The landmark case of Parents v. Kids has been argued onscreen in dozens of television series since the 1950′s. One classic of the type is nearly as old as television. Leave it to Beaver began in 1957 and ran for six seasons. The family situations are viewed today as nostalgic, wholesome, middle-class stories of [...]
Presley dies at age 42 “MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley, the Mississippi boy whose rock ‘n’ roll guitar and gyrating hips changed American musical styles, died Tuesday afternoon of heart failure.” So began the story on the front page of the Wednesday August 17, 1977 Topeka Daily Capital. Elvis Presley made headlines for over [...]
