In the Bettendorf Public Library's latest event in its "Community Connections" series, a true-life tale involving social reformer Frederick Douglass, iconic author Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the United States' first public discussions about abolition will be explored on February 17 through scenes from Sons & Daughters of Thunder, the locally produced 2019 drama boasting the talents of Fourth Wall Films' Kelly and Tammy Rundle and more than two dozen familiar area performers.

A fascinating virtual presentation by historian Russell Baldner, the German American Heritage Center's Our Daily Bread: Martin Luther & a Mansfeld Boyhood Home will, on February 20, deliver insight into one of the most noted figures of the 20th century, its focus on events surrounding the town that currently houses about 9,000 people in a southwest corner of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Held in conjunction with Black History Month, a special presentation of massive cultural import will be held at the Davenport Public Library's Fairmount Branch on February 22, with Black History: The Fight for Civil Rights in Davenport celebrating figures of the Civil Rights movement who have a local connection – among them the formerly enslaved African-American who stayed in Davenport, and whose name is etched in history through the notorious "Dred Scott decision."

Composed of the stirring string musicians and vocalists Ranaan Meyer on double bass and Nicholas Kendall and Charles Yang both on violin, the critically lauded trio Time for Three plays a special February 17 concert at the Bettendorf Performing Arts Center as guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, the performers' eclectic tastes and talents inspiring their self-professed moniker as “a classically trained garage band.”