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Black History

Hill, Forrest M.

Forrest M. Hill. (Gazette 18 Feb 1934) The name Forrest Hill won’t likely conjure a collection of grand biographical accomplishments…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Joe Wang and the Test Pilots @ KPL

“Album oriented power pop for people with a brain” from Joe Wang and the Test Pilots at Kalamazoo Public Library’s…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Earthwork Music @ KPL

Musicians from the Earthwork Music Collective celebrate Earth Day at Oshtemo Branch Library, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Seth Bernard, May…

Recreation

Allendale

With its large lakeside hotel and "over the water" dance hall, the resort along the south side of Gull Lake…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Jeff Dwarshuis @ KPL

Classical guitarist Jeff Dwarshuis at Central Library during Art Hop, December 2, 2011

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Orpheum Bell @ KPL

Equipped with an orchestral ensemble of banjo, accordion, trumpet, xylophone, shepherd harp, musical saw, pedal steel, a suitcase pump organ,…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Red Tail Ring Returns to KPL

Earthwork Music artists Red Tail Ring (Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp) returned to Kalamazoo Public Library on Wednesday, April 18,…

Business

America's Pansy Capital

A headline from the Kalamazoo Gazette in 1954 amplified what many Kalamazooans had known for the previous two decades: “Kalamazoo…

Health

KPH Northwest Unit

The structure stood atop a hill overlooking Kalamazoo in the Fairmount Neighborhood at 1500 Blakeslee Avenue. In spite of being…

Ready to Read

Ready to Read

Ready to Read is a Kalamazoo Public Library outreach program that encourages parents and caregivers to share books with children from birth…

Business

Vander Horst, Henry L.

Henry L. Vander Horst One could easily make the claim for Henry L. Vander Horst being Kalamazoo’s most important 20th…

Databases

Science Reference Center

Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias,…

Explora for Middle Schools

Magazines and reference books for middle school students. Includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents. Subjects include history, current…

Literature Criticism Online

For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there’s no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on…

Rocket Languages

Rocket Languages is an award-winning, interactive online language learning system. Users can learn conversational language at their own pace. Languages…

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