Event Archive

March 2020
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    Alabama Story - *CANCELED*

    March 20, 2020 to March 29, 2020

    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...

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    2020 Ike Book Talk Series

    March 10, 2020

    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...

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    2020 Ike Book Talk Series

    March 8, 2020

    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...

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February 2020
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    Reader's Theatre - TWO ROOMS by Lee Blessing

    February 27, 2020

    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...

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    Lunch and Learn "Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge"

    February 27, 2020

    "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...

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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    February 23, 2020

    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...

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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    February 16, 2020

    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...

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    Enchanted Evening at the Historic Seelye Mansion

    February 14, 2020

    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...

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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    February 9, 2020

    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...

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    Annie Jr.

    February 7, 2020 to February 16, 2020

    Don't miss Great Plains Theatre Academy's Plain Great Players in Annie Jr.! Tickets may be purchased at the Box Office, over the phone, or online. Adult tickets $15 Student tickets $10

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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    February 2, 2020

    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...

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    Abilene Gun Show

    February 1, 2020 to February 2, 2020

    The Abilene Gun Show will be held on Feb 1st-2nd, 2020 in Abilene, KS. This Abilene gun show is held at Sterl Hall and hosted by Abilene Gun Show. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and...

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January 2020
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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    January 26, 2020

    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...

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    Lunch & Learn: WWI and the Introduction of the Fossil Fuel Era

    January 23, 2020

    World War I forever changed human reliance on fossil fuels such as petroleum, a product considered essential to military and economic progress that altered battlefield expectations of how the war was...

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    2020 Winter Film Festival

    January 19, 2020

    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...

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    Mystery At The Gala

    January 18, 2020

    Mystery At The Gala is a one night only special event at 401 Cottage (Thunderstruck Banquet Room) from 6-9pm. Tickets are $50 each, or a table for 8 may be purchased and reserved for $350. All...

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    At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

    January 14, 2020

    The 2020 Book TALK series kicks off with Ike's own memoir, "At Ease."

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August 2019
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    Chisholm Trail Days

    August 31, 2019 to September 1, 2019

    Video of 2019 Chisholm Trail Days Join us for the 4th annual Chisholm Trail Days. Saturday, August 31st and Sunday, September 1st from 10am - 11pm at Old Abilene Town

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