This event is in the "Adults" group Prohibition & Iowa’s Bootlegging Legacy Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: History Age Group: Adults Join Iowa historical fiction writer, Ann Hanigan Kotz for a history of prohibition in the 20th century. Upcoming View Details Registration Required
This event is in the "Adults" group Snacks & Facts: Cookbooks Against War Friday, April 3, 2026 at 11:30am - 12:30pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: History, Presentation Age Group: Adults No time to attend an evening or weekend program? Try our Snacks & Facts series. We’ll have a speaker the first Friday of each month (except December and July). Come ready to learn, and we’ll provide the snacks! View Details
Library Closed Friday, April 17, 2026 at 9:00am - 1:30pm Waukee Public Library The Library will be closed until 1:30 PM for staff training. Closing
This event is in the "Adults" group Digging into Buxton Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:15pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Class, Culture, History Age Group: Adults Established in 1900, Buxton, Iowa was a thriving coal mining town of 5,000, where Black and white residents were treated equally and both thrived. Rachelle Chase, author of "Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa" and "Lost Buxton” will sh Upcoming View Details Registration Required
This event is in the "Adults" group Ice Age in Iowa Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: Class, History, Presentation Age Group: Adults People began moving into Iowa over 13,000 years ago at the end of the last “ice age”. This was a time of giant land mammals, ice, and extremely cold temperatures. Upcoming View Details Registration Required
This event is in the "Adults" group What Do We Stand For? Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: Culture, History, Presentation Age Group: Adults Two hundred and fifty years ago this year, a band of farmers who read philosophy in their spare time declared the independence of “thirteen united States of America.” They went on to found the republic that we live in today. Upcoming View Details Registration Required
This event is in the "Adults" group Discoveries Unearthed From Ancient Human Bones Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm Coal Mine Meeting Room at Waukee Public Library Program Type: History, Presentation Age Group: Adults How do scientists know when a fossil bone fragment belongs to an ancient human relative? What methods do they use to reconstruct not just anatomy, but behavior from incomplete skeletons? Join paleoanthropologist Dr. Upcoming View Details Registration Required
