TODAY

THE PEACE RIBBON, on display 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Hawai'i State Library lobby downtown; a multipanel fabric-art piece honoring those who died in the Iraq war; a national project of CODEPINK Women for Peace.

EXCHANGE CLUB OF DOWNTOWN HONOLULU, meeting noon at a local country club; featured guest, Dick Sutton, vice president/general counsel of the Honolulu Marathon, on the future of the race in Hawai'i; call for location. 524-0330, ext. 2.

BISHOP MUSEUM RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES monthly forum, 4 p.m., Paki 1 conference room of the museum; featured speaker Robert Cowie, Center for Conservation Research and Training, University of Hawai'i; free. 847-8256.

FAMILY HISTORY CLASS 7-8 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Kane'ohe, Family History Library, 46-117 Halaulani St.; learn to use the PAF Insight program to search, merge and edit your family history file; free. 247-3134.