Las Animas - Bent County Library District

When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...

Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...

In Night at the museum, the newly hired night watchman for the American Museum of Natural History in New York discovers that the exhibits come to life--and wreak havoc--after the sun goes down. Then in Night at the museum: battle of the Smithsonian, when Larry learns that his nocturnal friends have been retired to the Smithsonian Archives in Washington, D.C., he leads a hilarious battle against museum misfits who plan to take over the world.