Earth Month Feed
This cornerstone of the commemoration began in 1971. There will be food before the Candlelight Walk on the Commons and in the Prentice Hall parking lot, and there will be an online signup for the Candlelight Vigil.
Authors: Barbara Child, Laura Davis, Rodney Dillman, Susan Erenrich, Tom Grace, David Hassler, Miriam Jackson, Peter Jedick, Neal Johnson, Donald Miller, Chera Thompson, and Paula Stone Tucker.
Come meet and remember with this year's authors.
The campus community and visitors will gather at noon on the May 4 site at the Kent State Commons to commemorate the moment that gunfire erupted 55 years ago.
This trip will be held locally on the Cuyahoga River. We will meet at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center (or you can meet us at Kramer Fields-just let us know ahead of time!) From there, we will paddle to Brust Park in Munroe Falls.
Explore the Kent campus via golf cart, with the scholars behind behind the oral histories map site MappingMay4.kent.edu. Visitors will tour the area and hear audio clips from those who experienced events at each site in 1970.
Continue the momentum immediately following this year's May 4 commemoration with a social mixer and open mic just up the hill in Taylor Hall.
Here’s your chance to enjoy a beautiful sunset, relax in nature, and let your worries drift into the night as we paddle into the sunset on a peaceful and serene lake right down the road from Kent.
Date & Time: (weather permitting) Sunday, May 4 from 7 - 10 p.m.
Join the Trumbull County Historical Society in a conversation with Modern Props’ John Zabrucky and Devo’s Gerald V.
Join acclaimed folk duo Magpie—Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino—for a powerful evening of music and reflection on the 55th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Originating in Kent in 1973, Magpie has spent over 50 years using music to advocate for justice, peace, and social change.
Jerry Lewis was professor of sociology at Kent State University from 1966 to 1996. He witnessed the May 4 shootings as a faculty marshal and dedicated much of his career to researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the events of May 4, 1970.