Past Events: The Big Read, October 2011

As we prepare to renovate and streamline the library website, we will be posting more events, pictures, and announcements on our blog and Facebook page. Check back often while we highlight the best of our past events. 
~Tori

Big Read Celebration

October 15, 2011

To celebrate the 2011 Big Read selection, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Andover Public Library invited renowned photographer Bill Snead to speak about his experiences as a war-time journalist.

Additionally, The Last Patrol, a local group of Vietnam War re-enactors associated with the Kansas Museum of Military History, displayed a number of artifacts from the war, including a M35A2C Vietnam Gun-truck titled “Business as Usual” and a 1965 UH-1H Huey helicopter painted in the colors of the 1/9 Cavalry “The Headhunters”, a Regiment that participated in some of the most fierce fighting during the war.

The military vehicles in the library parking lot drew in many citizens who were on their way to drop off recycling.

Although the weapons were facsimiles, many of the re-enactors' props are authentic.

Library patrons were able to climb on the helicopter and see what it was like to sit inside.

The library is happy to report that not a single invading force overtook the well-defended parking lot that day.