# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 29th Annual Frieze Lecture Series: America@250
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: America@250: A Quartet of Responses to a Quarter of a Millennium 

The Frieze Lectures, a free public lecture series created to celebrate the oldest library in Illinois founded under its Local Library Act of 1872, continues for its 29th year, from October 22 to November 12. 

This year’s Frieze Lectures will consider the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence through four very different lenses. 

All presentations begin at 2:00 p.m. at the downtown location of the Rock Island Public Library, 401 19th Street. All are open to the public, free of charge. 

The 2026 series 

October 22 - Dr John Hildreth: Snapshots of American Music 

October 29 - Dr Eric Stewart: Deism and its Influence on America's Founders 

November 5 - Dr Jane Simonsen: What Happened Here in 1776? 

November 12 - Dr Meg Gillette: 250 Years of Book Banning 

The Frieze Lecture Series was created by the late Ruth Evelyn Katz, a longtime library board member and 1938 graduate of Augustana College, to celebrate the library's 125th anniversary in 1998. The name comes from the architectural feature around the top of the historic Frederick Weyerhaeuser-funded building. The authors whose names are carved into the sandstone are Homer, Longfellow, Emerson, Virgil, Hugo, Shakespeare, Goethe, Burns, Hawthorne, Tegner, and Bancroft. Though not well known today, the names of Tegner, a Swedish poet, and Bancroft, a naval historian, would have been familiar to 1903 residents.

For full details see https://www.rockislandlibrary.org/event/frieze-lecture-series-27393
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rock-island/29th-annual-frieze-lecture-series-america-250/200030712742956
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rock Island
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library)
- **lat**: 41.50852
- **long**: -90.57278
- **full address**: Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St, Rock Island, IL 61201-8124, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is 29th Annual Frieze Lecture Series: America@250 being held?
  - **A:** 29th Annual Frieze Lecture Series: America@250 takes place on Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm at Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St, Rock Island, IL 61201-8124, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing 29th Annual Frieze Lecture Series: America@250?
  - **A:** 29th Annual Frieze Lecture Series: America@250 is organized by Rock Island Public Library.

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