Author Douglas Brinkley will be the 2016 J.R. McDowell Speaker to be held at the Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College discussing his book “Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.” General admission tickets are $10 and will go on sale at the Library September 1st (cash or check only).  For more […]

THIS EVENT IS A SELLOUT.  Doors will open at 5:30 pm instead of 6:00 pm.  Presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and contributor to TIME and The New York Times Book Review, Jon Meacham is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. A regular guest on Morning Joe, he is known as a skilled raconteur with a depth […]

Dr. Michael Massimino, a former NASA astronaut, is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. His presentation, “Views from Space: Leadership, Teamwork, Determination” will be the fall event for the 2018 J.R. McDowell Speaker Series sponsored by the Transylvania […]