Southwest Michigan

Woodcock Walks 

Tuesday, April 14 & Thursday, April 16, 8-9 pm 

Audience: All Ages
Meet: KNC’s Willard Rose Prairie on North Westnedge Avenue

Join us for a short stroll into the Willard Rose Prairie to glimpse the male woodcock as it performs its amazing twilight aerial display to impress the females.

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The Revolutionary War

.  “The Die is Cast: The Intolerable Acts and the American Revolution."

Professor Andrew Shankman, Ph.D. Rutgers University

The year 1774 and the passage by the British Parliament of the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts changed forever American colonists' understanding of Britain

The Revolutionary War

“State Constitutions of the Revolutionary Era”

Professor Sally Hadden. Ph.D. Western Michigan University

She will discuss state constitutions at a general level and some of the oddities (New Hampshire's and Georgia's first constitutions), showcase Massachusetts I and then

The Revolutionary War

“What Was the Founders’ Original Intent: The Lessons of Europe and the Origins of the Constitution”

Professor James Lewis, Ph.D. Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo College history professor James E. Lewis Jr. will talk about what the Framers of the Constitution meant by a "more