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SCHEDULE - 2008 | SCHEDULE - 2007 | SCHEDULE - 2006

SCHEDULE - 2008

September 26-27: Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Keynote address for a Special Conference on the Underground Railroad. More information to follow.

SCHEDULE - 2007

April 16: Lenawee County Library, Adrian, Michigan, 7:00pm
4459 W. US. Rt. 223. For more information call: (517) 263-1011.

April 17: Paw Paw District Library, Paw Paw, Michigan, 6:30pm
For more information go to: http://www.pawpaw.lib.mi.us/

April 19: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, 7:00pm
Garber Auditorium of Chan Shun Hall. For more information go to: http://www.andrews.edu/library/RefDesk/calendar.html

April 21: Detroit Public Library (Main Library), 2:00pm
Friends Auditorium
5201 Woodward Ave., north of Warren Ave. in Midtown Detroit
For more information call: 313-833-4042 Or go to: www.detroitpubliclibrary.org

SCHEDULE - 2006

February 15: Western Michigan University 7:00pm
Auditorium Room 1010 in the Fetzer Center (www.wmich.edu)

February 17th: Schulers Book Store, Lansing, Michigan 7:30pm
Eastwood Town Center, 2820 Towne Center Blvd., Lansing

February 18: Southwest Michigan Black Heritage Society Book Fair 2:00pm
Douglass Community Center 1000 West Paterson Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan

February 19, The Box Factory, St. Joseph, Michigan 2:00pm
1101 Broad Street, St. Joseph, Michigan (www.boxfactoryforthearts.org)

February 20: Trinity Christian College 3:30pm
Grand Lobby of the Ozinga Chapel, Palos Heights, Illinois (www.trnty.edu)

February 22: The Newberry Library 6:00pm
Chicago, Illinois (For more information go to the Newberry Library's website)

February 23: The South Haven Public Library 7:00pm
314 Broadway, South Haven, Michigan
(616) 637-1413

February 24: Covert, Michigan 1:00pm
Covert Township Hall

February 28: Williams College 4:00pm
Williamstown, MA (www.williams.edu)

March 2: Colby College, Main 4:00pm
Lovejoy Hall, 212 (www.colby.edu)

March 7: Wellesley College, Wellesely, MA 4:40pm
Philosophy Department

March 19: First Congregational Church, Portland, OR
Lunchtime Talk, 12:00pm
1126 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR
(503) 228-7219

March 27: California State University, Monterey Bay 7:00pm
The University Center (www.csumb.edu/)

March 29: Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA 7:00pm (www.sonoma.edu)
3001 Schultz

March 30: San Francisco State University 2:00pm (www.sfsu.edu)
In the de Bellis Room of the San Francisco State University Library

April 3: Pepperdine University, Malibu, California 4:00pm (www.pepperdine.edu)

April 11: Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois (www.wheaton.edu)

April 13: University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 4:30pm
Dudley-Bailey Library on the second floor of Andrews Hall

April 18: Hope College, Holland, Michigan 7:00pm (www.hope.edu)

April 20: First Central Congregational Church 7:00pm
421 S 36th Street, Omaha, NE 68131

April 27: Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia 8:00pm
Hollins Room of the Wyndham Robertson Library (www.hollins.edu)

June 4: Chicago Tribune Printer's Row Book Fair, Chicago 11:00am
The Lake Room in the University Center
525 S. State Street, Chicago

July 1: Meijers Store, Benton Harbor, Michigan 2:00pm
1920 Pipestone Road, Benton Harbor, MI

July 3: Saugatuck Douglas Library, 4:00pm
10 Mixer Street, Douglas, MI (www.sdlibrary.org)
(In the Reader's Garden Behind the Library)

August 26: Covert Michigan's 150th Anniversary Celebration, 11:00am
Covert School, 40 Covert, MI
Phone for more information: (269) 764-8986

October 21: Celebration of the Book, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 12:00pm
Grand Rapids Public Library, Ryerson Auditorium
www.grpl.org

November 4: Box Factory for the Arts Writing Weekend,
St. Joseph, Michigan, 11:00am.
Writing workshop on writing and publishing historical non-fiction.
Advance sign-up required for attendance!
1101 Broad Street, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
www.boxfactoryforthearts.org


Covert Classroom, c. 1950

"The stripes upon our national banner differ in color as do the races in this county, but they are equal in length and exact in width, which aught to mean in this country, equal rights, equal opportunity, and equal protection for all, regardless of race, color, or previous condition."
.............. -Speech given at Covert's Emanciaption festival in 1895.