Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Middle-aged store cashier Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is walking home through Greenwich Village after being celebrated by his employer for 25 years of service. They gave him a gold watch. Dressed in a tuxedo, he comes across Kitty March (Joan Bennett) who is being accosted by a drunken assailant (Dan Duryea). He saves the […]
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
This French war drama recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other Muslims in Paris played in the French Resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). The film features two historic figures: Si Kaddour Benghabrit, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, and Salim Halali, an Algerian Jewish singer. Tahar Rahim stars as a young Algerian and Michael Lonsdale as the rector. […]
Mel Maurer, a member, past president, and past Historian of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, performs as President Lincoln.
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke. Zeke is a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is.
Join Margaret Lann as she explores the local sites where history was made along the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail.
The novel follows Alex Armstrong, an investigator for a law firm whose work on a rape scandal at a university draws her close to her traumatic past. She was once Alexandra Quinlan and was wrongfully accused, though exonerated, of the brutal murder of her parents and brother.
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
This film follows Besnik, a lonely shepherd and devoted Muslim, haunted by unfulfilled love. He is the son of a Catholic mother and formerly Communist father whom he takes care of in an Albanian village in the mountains where Christians and Muslims have found a way to co-exist peacefully. This film, which captures the beauty […]
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
This film follows Besnik, a lonely shepherd and devoted Muslim, haunted by unfulfilled love. He is the son of a Catholic mother and formerly Communist father whom he takes care of in an Albanian village in the mountains where Christians and Muslims have found a way to co-exist peacefully. This film, which captures the beauty […]
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
This film follows Besnik, a lonely shepherd and devoted Muslim, haunted by unfulfilled love. He is the son of a Catholic mother and formerly Communist father whom he takes care of in an Albanian village in the mountains where Christians and Muslims have found a way to co-exist peacefully. This film, which captures the beauty […]
Army marksman Bart Tare (John Dall) has loved guns since childhood. When he and his pals attend a carnival sideshow, Bart meets sharpshooting blonde Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins). It’s gun/love at first sight. They become a couple, but Annie takes a dim view of domestic bliss and craves money and excitement. Reluctantly, he joins […]
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
This stage production tells the story of Etty Hillesum and her struggle to sustain humanity in the face of unspeakable brutality and inhumanity. With her writing and a wry sense of humor, Etty tells of the life she is living—her loves, her work, her life lived in the moment. Adapted and performed by Susan Stein […]
Though gone over a hundred years, Ray Chapman is well remembered as a Cleveland icon. The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the […]