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Author Talk: Tomas Kucera: Ancestor of Three Kucera Branches

Skala Bartizal Library 1400 Inspiration Pl SW, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Meet local author Tony Wobeter on Saturday, June 29, 10:00 a.m. at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! Mr. Wobeter will give a short talk in the museum’s Skala Bartizal Library about his new book, Tomas Kucera: Ancestor of Three Kucera Branches, a companion volume to his 2016 book The Antonin Kucera Family...

Author Talk: Tomas Kucera: Ancestor of Three Kucera Branches

Skala Bartizal Library 1400 Inspiration Pl SW, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Meet local author Tony Wobeter on Saturday, June 29, 10:00 a.m. at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! Mr. Wobeter will give a short talk in the museum’s Skala Bartizal Library about his new book, Tomas Kucera: Ancestor of Three Kucera Branches, a companion volume to his 2016 book The Antonin Kucera Family...

History on Tap: Pop! Nuclear Weapons, the Cold War, and Eighties Popular Culture

National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library 1400 Inspiration Pl SW, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Cost: Free Location: NCSMLDerek Buckaloo, Coe College Professor of History, will take us through the decade of the eighties looking at how Pop Culture was influenced by the Cold War and its very real threat of nuclear war, which thankfully faded with the Cold War's surprising ending. Join us before 5:30 p.m. and check out...