A John Burroughs Medal Award winner and 2022 recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Award will take part in a virtual program offered by Illinois Libraries Present and the Rock Island and Moline Public Libraries, her June 21 event Braiding Sweetgrass: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer treating participants to an audience with the bestselling author and director of Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Based on extensive research in century-old German congregational manuscripts, period documents, and oral history gathered decades ago, the German American Heritage Center's June 11 virtual program The War Within: World War I & the Assault on German Identity in Iowa will detail a largely forgotten chapter in the history of Iowa and the life of a faithful congregation, one still capable of eliciting strong emotion and providing a sobering, thought-provoking lesson on which to reflect.

Held in honor of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Davenport Public Library is hosting a special storytelling night at the library's Eastern Avenue Branch, with the June 14 event designed to bring together the queer folks and allies of the Quad Cities for an evening of community and understanding as four gifted Quad Cities talents share their thoughts on the theme of pride.

A pair of famed commentators and humorists familiar from FOX News, MTV, and the Game Show Network will blend their talents on June 3 when The Laughs & Liberty Tour makes its way to Davenport's Adler Theatre, the night boasting observations and insight from standup comedian and author Jimmy Failla and frequent news panelist and correspondent Kennedy.