Event Archive
Reitz & Rust Spring Market - *CANCELED*
$5 Admission April 25, 2020 10 am - 4 pm Old & Junky | New & Trendy Food trucks • Shopping • Fun!
Lunch and Learn - *CANCELED*
Guest speaker: Mike Russell, Professor of History, Kansas Wesleyan University The Lunch & Learn series is made possible courtesy of the Eisenhower Foundation and the Union Pacific Foundation.
Evenings at Ease: GI Jews (film screening) - *CANCELED*
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. CDT GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their own...
Easter Egg Roll - *CANCELED*
Mark your calendars for the annual Easter Egg Roll!!! Petting zoo, face painting, egg hunt, and lots of fun activities!
Reader's Theatre - GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza translated by Christopher Hampton - *CANCELED*
God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of two couples, residents of a tony Brooklyn neighborhood, who meet to discuss a playground incident. Alan and Annette's son hit Michael and Veronica's...
Eisenhower Marathon *CANCELED*
Runners at the Eisenhower Marathon and Half Marathon wind through the territory south of Abilene that cattlemen followed when bringing their herds to Abilene on the Chisholm Trail in the 1800s. All...
Easter Bunny Train - *CANCELED*
Easter Bunny Train April 4, 2020 Ride the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad with the Easter Bunny. Reservations made through the Abilene Parks & Rec office, 785-263-7266
Lunch and Learn: Politics on the Platform *CANCELED*
POLITICS ON THE PLATFORM: WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE CHAUTAUQUA
Alabama Story - *CANCELED*
The fur flies in 1959 Montgomery when a children’s book about a black rabbit marrying white rabbit lands on the shelves of the state library. In the heat of the Civil Rights movement, a fiery...
2020 Ike Book Talk Series
Ike's Book Club starts the new year with Eisenhower's At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends. The 2020 Ike Book Talk series begins Tuesday, January 14 at 7 p.m. The book club meets in the Visitors...
2020 Ike Book Talk Series
Ike's Book Club starts the new year with Eisenhower's At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends. The 2020 Ike Book Talk series begins Tuesday, January 14 at 7 p.m. The book club meets in the Visitors...
Reader's Theatre - TWO ROOMS by Lee Blessing
The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut, where an American hostage is being held by Arab terrorists, and a room in his home in the United States, which his wife has stripped of...
Lunch and Learn "Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge"
"Loss and Redemption at St Vith" closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most accounts of the...
2020 Winter Film Festival
The 2020 Winter Film Festival begins Sunday, January 12 at 2 p.m. The series continues each Sunday through January and February in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium at...
2020 Winter Film Festival
The 2020 Winter Film Festival begins Sunday, January 12 at 2 p.m. The series continues each Sunday through January and February in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium at...
Enchanted Evening at the Historic Seelye Mansion
Don’t have plans for Valentine’s Day? No worries, we have your romantic evening covered... Celebrate your love with an intimate dining experience on priceless Haviland china from France with...
2020 Winter Film Festival
The 2020 Winter Film Festival begins Sunday, January 12 at 2 p.m. The series continues each Sunday through January and February in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium at...