Library U's Fall 2025 Humanities Spreaker Series, co- sponsored with Humanities Washington, the Bainbridge Book Festival, and the Bainbridge Public Library, begins September 28. Presentations take place in the Bainbridge Public Library community meeting room.
Important Logistics for November 23
HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST ERA
Sunday, November 23
The
Bainbridge Public Library is having solar panels installed this month
along with other repairs, so it will be officially closed on November 23. The Library U event has moved to the Bainbridge Island Senior Center, 370 Brien Dr SE. The Senior Center will co-sponsor this event. Please also note the change to an earlier starting time.
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The Blacklist Era and Hollywood
A Humanities Washington presentation by film critic and historian Robert Horton
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" The answer to this question - or refusal to answer it - cast hundreds of lives into turmoil at the dawn of the Cold War. The Red Scare that erupted in the 1940s allowed the House Committee on Un-American Activities to grab headlines by parading prominent Hollywood figures before the cameras. This presentation, illustrated with film clips, tells the stories from this heartbreaking and scandalous era, and how notables such as Humphrey Bogart, Elia Kazan, and Charlie Chaplin were swept up in the frenzy. We'll also ask a question: with today's politics at a boiling point, are we living in such as period again?
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