Our Community Series presentations have focused in the past on the following: 

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• Starkville’s neighboring towns and communities (Sturgis, Maben, Oktoc, Sessums) within the county (Joan Wilson, Arma de la Cruz, and committee, organizers)

• Christmas memories (informal participation)

• Quilts (Carole Gospodnetich and Kay Henry, organizers)

• Yesteryear slide show (Ruth Morgan and Jimmy Cole, presenters)

• Ham radio (Jerry Drott, presenter)

• History of trains in the county (David Bridges, presenter)

• Reminiscences of Bob Buchanan, former Negro Baseball League pitcher (Bill Poe, organizer)

• German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico during WWII (Bill Lee, presenter)

• Digital archaeology and digital archiving (Paul Jacobs, presenter)

• Memories of the home front during WWII (informal roundtable discussion)

• Experiences of former military pilots in later wars (informal roundtable discussion)

• History of aviation in the county (formal panel discussion)

• Needmore community of yesteryear (panel discussion by black leaders, with audience participation; Betsy Longest and Ruth Morgan, program organizers)

• Scanning Day (MSU library staff scanned documents and photos as a free service for the community)

• Native Americans program (lecture/demonstration on how prehistoric Indians made and used tools for hunting animals and making clothes. Pat Arinder, presenter)

• Black bears in Mississippi (MSU Graduate student researcher Nick Fowler, presenter)

• Second Needmore program (Charles “LaLa” Evans, organizer and leader)

• Old Main Dormitory program (Dr. Charles Lowery, presenter, with audience participation)