Movie: "Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero"

FREE

Come watch this family film of the true WWI story of America's most decorated dog.

This special movie event will include activities, giveaways, and snacks.

Sat. March 9, 2019 1:30 pm

Bossier Parish Libraries History Center

2206 Beckett St.

Bossier City, La 71111

318-746-7717

EAST BANK DISTRICT (OLD DOWNTOWN BOSSIER) HISTORY WALKING TOUR

EAST BANK DISTRICT (OLD DOWNTOWN BOSSIER) HISTORY WALKING TOUR

A Bossier Parish 175^th Anniversary Event, in conjunction with the East Bank Shop Small Market, Small Business Saturday. 

Bossier Parish Libraries History Center Outreach Specialist Pam Carlisle will conduct a one-hour tour to share stories from the historic buildings clustered area around the new East Bank Plaza, 665 Barksdale Blvd. Learn about the fascinating history of what was Bossier City’s bustling downtown, which is coming to life again as the East Bank District. Participants in the tour will receive a Bossier Parish 175th Anniversary T-shirt as supplies last.

Sat. November 24, 2018

Tour offered Twice: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

East Bank Plaza, 665 Barksdale Blvd., Bossier City, La. 

FREE

Call Pam Carlisle at 318-746-7717 at the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center for more information.

Rain Date: If East Bank Shop Small Market is cancelled due to bad weather, tours will be held Sun. Dec. 2 during HeART the Art festival, departing East Bank Plaza at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Second Sunday Showing for May

April's Second Sunday Showing

Come, enjoy some popcorn and a movie!

Our next installment of Second Sunday Screening will feature:

"Dunkirk: The Event That Shaped Our World" (PG-13)

Set in Dunkirk, France during WWII where 330,000 allied troops were evacuated from the beach during a fierce battle with the German Army.

Local Authors of Local History

HISTORY CENTER TO HOST BOOK SALE/BOOK SIGNING EVENT, "Local Authors of Local History," back by popular demand! Local and regional history and culture book sale and signing event held in conjunction with the Bossier Central Library complex open house. Light refreshments will be served.  Local authors will sign and sell their books with topics as varied as catastrophic weather events, haunted historic buildings, poems told from the varied perspectives of inhabitants at a Louisiana plantation to historic photographs of old Bossier. Call Pam Carlisle at 318-746-7717 or email pcarlisle@bossierlibrary.org for more information.

The Current List of Participating Authors. (Additional authors are anticipated and this list will be updated)

LOCAL AUTHORS OF LOCAL HISTORY August 9, 2016

Author List – Updated July 22, 2016

1.       Kevin Jones: Arcadia Press Images of America Series: Bossier City

2.       Billy Andrews: Outstanding Weather Phenomena in the Ark-La-Tex: an Incomplete History of Significant Weather Events

3.       John Andrew Prime: co-author of Arcadia Press Images of America: Barksdale Air Force Base and contributor to Shreveport Sounds in Black and White and Legendary Locals of Shreveport  with Gary D Joiner PhD

4.       Dr. Roy Phillips: Exodus from the Door of No Return

5.       Copies of The Late Col. Neill A. Yarborough’s book History of Bossier City, Louisiana from the Early Years 1833-2006 will be available for sale by the Historical Center.

6.       Gypsy Damaris Boston, with her son Frank Boston: Dear Louisiana…Love Gypsy, Hurry Before the Magic Ends,  Pink Hair,  Rainbow Fairies

7.       Kristi Cavett Jones (and possibly Jackson Cavett Sibley:  Plantations Along the Upper Red River of Louisiana

8.       Dr. Cheryl White: Historic Haunts of Shreveport, Wicked Shreveport, Historic Oakland Cemetery

9.       Katie Bickham The Belle Mar (instructor at BPCC, English and poetry)