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Attic to Archives: 4 Week Workshop

Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
DIY Lab at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History, Technology
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Registration has closed for this event. Join Stephanie Zimble and Cameron Smith for a 4-week workshop on personal history, genealogy, and preservation. Week 1(June 20)&nbs...

Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: DIY Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History, Technology
Event Details:

Registration has closed for this event.

Join Stephanie Zimble and Cameron Smith for a 4-week workshop on personal history, genealogy, and preservation.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.

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Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
Book Club, History
Age Group:
Adults
Memory Book Club:

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you! Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction throug...

Event Details:

In July, we get to enjoy Deirdre Mask's The Address Book (2020). Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and h...

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Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, History
Required
Seats Remaining: 10

Memory Book Club

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you!

Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. Every 3rd Wednesday from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, we will dive into a nonfiction book, from the reclusive mountains of Idaho in Tara Westover's Educated to the stunning life story of Viola Davis in her memoir Finding Me.

Event Details:

In July, we get to enjoy Deirdre Mask's The Address Book (2020).

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

After Library Closes

This program occurs after the library closes.

genealogy research

From Attic to Archives: 4 Week Workshop

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
DIY Lab at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History, Technology
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Stephanie Zimble and Cameron Smith for a 4-week workshop on personal history, genealogy, and preservation. Week 1 Personal History-- What to Save: Stephanie will pr...

Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: DIY Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History, Technology
Event Details:

Join Stephanie Zimble and Cameron Smith for a 4-week workshop on personal history, genealogy, and preservation.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.

Book cover of Haunted Roads of Western Pennsylvania

Haunted Roads of Western PA

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Community Room at Sharpsburg
Program Type:
History, Lecture
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

There are ghostly travelers who forever wander the lonely roads of Western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes, lynchings and even st...

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Required
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History, Lecture
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

There are ghostly travelers who forever wander the lonely roads of Western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes, lynchings and even strange beasts haunt this isolated stretch outside Pittsburgh.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.

wager

Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
Book Club, History
Age Group:
Adults
Memory Book Club:

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you! Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction throug...

Event Details:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wager is a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating...

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Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, History
Required
Seats Remaining: 10

Memory Book Club

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you!

Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. Every 3rd Wednesday from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, we will dive into a nonfiction book, from the reclusive mountains of Idaho in Tara Westover's Educated to the stunning life story of Viola Davis in her memoir Finding Me.

Event Details:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wager 

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

After Library Closes

This program occurs after the library closes.

Ulysses S Grant with Horse

Ulysses S Grant: His Life, His Myths

Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Celebrate Ulysses S. Grant's birthday with an engaging afternoon with Kenneth Serfass, an acclaimed US Grant impressionist. You'll learn more about what made Grant the most success...

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Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: History
Required
Seats Remaining: 42
Event Details:

Celebrate Ulysses S. Grant's birthday with an engaging afternoon with Kenneth Serfass, an acclaimed US Grant impressionist.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.

In Freedom's Shadow book cover

Spies, Slaves, and Secrets

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History, Lecture
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Author Robert Hilliard will present a 50-minute slide presentation where you'll learn more about the similarities between the US at the outbreak of the Civil War and the Iron ...

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Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History, Lecture
Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Author Robert Hilliard will present a 50-minute slide presentation where you'll learn more about the similarities between the US at the outbreak of the Civil War and the Iron Curtain in Europe during the Cold War.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.

ghosts of Pittsburgh

The Ghosts of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Pittsburgh has a North Side and a South Side and Haunted Pittsburgh will introduce you to its dark side. Join the curators of Pittsburgh's nightmares and of all things that go...

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Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History
Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Pittsburgh has a North Side and a South Side and Haunted Pittsburgh will introduce you to its dark side.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Soul of Pittsburgh book cover

Author Talk: Ed Simon

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Ed Simon joins us to discuss the paradoxes of our region in his new book: The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History     Ed Simon is...

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Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History
Required
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

Ed Simon joins us to discuss the paradoxes of our region in his new book: The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History

 

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Park Bench in a Park

The History of North Park

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

On February 11, 1927, Allegheny County Commissioners passed a resolution establishing North and South County Parks. North Park, at 3,094 acres, is the largest park in the system, m...

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Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History
Required
Seats Remaining: 45
Event Details:

On February 11, 1927, Allegheny County Commissioners passed a resolution establishing North and South County Parks. North Park, at 3,094 acres, is the largest park in the system, more than 1000 acres greater than its sister, South Park.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

genealogy research

Into the DIY Lab

Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
DIY Lab at Cooper-Siegel
Program Type:
History, Technology
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Local History Librarian Cameron in the DIY Lab to learn about the resources we have to help you finish your personal archive projects.

Required
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: DIY Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History, Technology
Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

Join Local History Librarian Cameron in the DIY Lab to learn about the resources we have to help you finish your personal archive projects.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Your Registration

Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program.