The “Armchair Film Adventures” series at Coos Bay Public Library continues on Tuesday, March 10th at 2:00 p.m. in the Myrtlewood Meeting Room. Globe Trekker’s “The Wild West” will be screened. Sami Sabiti follows Lewis & Clarks 3,700-mile journey, while Holly Morris rides the Oregon Wagon Trail to Salt Lake City. Zay Harding visits the Alamo in San Antonio where the famous siege took place in 1836. He then rides shotgun outside El Paso Texas on the Butterfield Stagecoach which carried passengers on a 3,000-mile journey from Missouri to San Francisco. Holly joins the annual re-ride of the 2,000-mile Pony Express in Utah which carried mail across the Wild West. Zay then retraces the route of the transcontinental railroad. On the Great Plains, Zay meets a member of the Lakota tribe, who speaks of the extermination of the buffalo with the building of the railroad. Finally Ian Wright heads to the Little Bighorn battlefield in Montana, the site of Custer’s famous Last Stand. Everyone is welcome at this program sponsored by The Friends of Coos Bay Public Library. No admission is charged and refreshments will be provided. Please call 269-1101 for further information about this program. The library is located at 525 Anderson Avenue in Coos Bay.
