Coos Bay Public Library hosts “From World War II to the World Wide Web: Celebrating the Boomer Decades” on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. beginning April 10th. The birth decades of the Baby Boomers will be revisited in “The Decade Your Were Born” dvd series. Each Thursday evening for three weeks, a certain decade will be featured. Period dress is optional. Thursday, April 24th – The 1960s – This decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States … the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time … Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist … the U.S. men s ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California … and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight. This free program is sponsored by the Friends of Coos Bay Public Library and open to the public. For more information, please visit http://bay.cooslibraries.org or call 541.269.1101.
