Children's Books Pop-Up Sale Starts Today

Pop-Up Sale!! You asked for it, and it's back. Children's books are priced 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1. Today (2/23/2017) through Sunday (2/26/2017), or sooner if we run out of books.

FREE Online Banking Class Registration

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FREE Streaming Class Registration

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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

FILM CLUB

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Monday, March 6, 6:00 p.m. - Part One
Monday, March 13, 6:00 p.m. - Part Two
Monday, March 20, 6:00 p.m. - Part Three

Smyrna Library Meeting Room

Open to the public. No reservations required.

In celebration of Women's History Month, we will explore the lives of two famous suffragists. Each week we will watch a portion of the documentary and follow with discussion. Refreshments will be served.

This Ken Burns documentary tells the little-known story of one of the most compelling political movements and friendships in American history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born into a world ruled entirely by men and for more than half a century led the fight to win the most basic civil rights for women. Their story is filled with love and loyalty, envy and betrayal, and it raises larger questions about principle and compromise, achievement and ends, and the meaning of independence itself. Their more than half-century struggle led to the passage of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, which finally granted American women the right to vote. Neither woman lived to see this great victory, but Stanton and Anthony stand as the two most important women in American history.

First Sunday Lecture: A Brief History of the Temperance and Prohibition Movements in Cobb County and Vicinity

Today local historian Dr. William P. Marchione, Ph.D. presented a slide show and lecture on the history of Temperance and Prohibition in the Cobb County area. Georgia was the very first state to embrace prohibition in the 20th century, doing so in 1908 a decade ahead of the 18th amendment; and Cobb County strongly supported the initiative. 

This lecture examined the interplay of cultural, economic, religious, and political forces that made the anti-liquor crusade the most sustained controversy in the area's political history. Dr. Marchione also discussed bootlegging and speakeasy operations in the area. This is a topic that has been largely neglected by Cobb County historians. Additionally, he offered possible explanations as to why this topic has received such scant attention.

The First Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Library.