Humanities Nebraska Andrew Carnegie Program offered as Part of the Grand Island 150 Celebration at Your Library! Please join us for this Humanities Nebraska Program presented by Tom King.

After his selling of United States Steel Company in 1901 and amassing a fortune equivalent to over $75 billion today, Andrew Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy, specifically in the building and funding of public libraries. By the time of his death in 1919, he spent over 90% of his wealth on charitable projects and funded the building of 2,509 libraries, with locations in the US, the UK, and Canada. Step back to the Gilded Age and listen to a Chautauqua portrayal of a once impoverished child from Scotland turned “richest man in the world” who believed that the wealthy share their fortune for the betterment of mankind.