On April 21, Utah-based author and university professor Branden Little will detail the programs and people that Herbert Hoover set up to feed millions in the online presentation Hoover: A 50-Year Humanitarian Odyssey, the latest informative and fascinating program in the Davenport Public Library's virtual 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum series.

A noted and frequently controversial German figure from the 18th and 19th centuries will be the subject of the German American Heritage Center's fascinating April 24 program The Life & Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt, with presenter Dr. Sandra Rebok offering unique insight into the Berlin native whose quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.

An esteemed standup comedian whose credits include sold-out arena shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles' The Forum, the Netflix special Stay Hungry, and appearing in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Sebastian Maniscalo brings his national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on April 15, the talent's other formidable accomplishments including authoring a best-selling memoir and enjoying a significant role in the Oscar-winning Best Picture Green Book.

If the combination of company and venue sounds familiar, that might be because you saw Ballet Quad Cities stage Alice in Wonderland at Davenport's Adler Theatre in 2018. Then again, thanks to a rare spring snowstorm, a lot of people didn't – included the members of the production's originally planned-for orchestra.