Saturday, April 2                                                                 Wednesday, April 6 9 – 11 a.m.                                                                             3 – 5:30 p.m. Fairmount Branch Library                                               Eastern Avenue Branch Library The Davenport Public Library partnering, for the fourth year, with Document Destruction and Recycling Services to present Community Shred Days for Money Smart Week 2011. This year we are going to have two events. [...]

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   Slave to Soldier PA   THE DAVENPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF IOWA PRESENTS “FROM SLAVE TO SOLDIER”   Experience the transition from slave to soldier in the Civil War     Thursday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. at the Fairmount Branch Library (3000 N. Fairmount Street)  Nationally known speaker, Joseph [...]

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The Davenport Public Library, Bettendorf Public Library, and Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities are partnering to bring the area an unprecedented four-part lecture series covering the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, presented by Dr. Art Pitz. Lecture 1 – “A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Pre-WWI”will happen on Monday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m. [...]

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