Iphoto: Lost 'events' folders-2 weeks work lost?

A family friend asked for photos in folders. I bought UBS Pen drive, then selected 'events' on my iMac and dragged them to a 128 GB USB pen drive.
30,000 photos are now on pen drive but 'events' have disappeared from my Mac
A couple of questions:
1) Is there a way to recover my events on I mac?
2) Is there a way to move the photos in folders onto pen drive?
Having spent two weeks sorting photos (Including scanned photos) into event folders any suggestions on how to recover this work would be appreciated.

What do you see in the iPhoto window?  Against the events nothing, against photos my photos are showing,
1) Is there a way to recover my events on I mac?
Do you have a back up? I have an external USB hard drive plugged into my mac.
2) Is there a way to move the photos in folders onto pen drive?
If photos ar ein Folders then they're not in iPhoto, right? So drag and drop. In iphoto there is 'events' this is a feature of iPhoto.
I also have i phone, The events feature and all events still show there. I guess I will be able to retrieve 'event's by plugging phone to mac via USB but slightly worried in case it synchs info from mac instead and wipes those out as well.
Any advice would be appreciated.

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