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The Friends is delighted to host Kate Carté, SMU Professor of History, who will present “The American Revolution, Religion, and National Unity.” Many Americans think of the American Revolution as […]

Join the Friends for an informative talk by Jeffrey Engel, David Gergen Director at the Center for Presidential History at SMU. He will present ‘Seeking Monsters to Destroy: How America […]

The Friends of the UP Public Library is delighted to host Shilo Brooks, President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Professor at SMU. His talk “Reading […]

The UP Public Library Community Read Program invites the community to join us for a screening of part 1 of the four part miniseries, Lonesome Dove. This 1989 miniseries starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane and Anjelica Huston won 7 Emmys and is a faithful adaptation of the novel.

The Friends is delighted to host Pulitzer Prize Finalist George Getschow to present “Why Do We Love Lonesome Dove”. This program serves as the perfect capstone to the UP Public Library Community Read featuring this epic novel. Getschow is the Executive Director of the Larry McMurtry Literary Center in Archer City, Texas, and curated and edited Pastures of the Empty Page, an acclaimed literary anthology about the epic life of Larry McMurtry.  Why has Lonesome Dove endured and continued to hover at the top of best seller lists for over 40 years?  George Getschow will share the reasons he believes Lonesome Dove inspires such devotion and will shed some fresh light on the McMurtry Literary Center.