Janice the Griot uses historical stories to take audiences through Emancipation, Jim Crow, Civil Rights up to Black Lives Matter. Relive an escape from slavery. Walk a picket line. Sing a Freedom song. Be a part of the story. Janice Curtis Greene is an award-winning Author, Master Storyteller and Historical Interpreter, an American Griot. She […]
Join us for a poetry reading event featuring selections from “Kin: Rooted in Hope”, the 2025 One Maryland One Book selection by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. The program will include both prepared and cold poetry readings that explore themes of hope, resilience, and family.
We invite you to join the Quince Orchard Library Poets as we share poems inspired by this year’s One Maryland One Book, Kin Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford.
Book Discussion
Join us to discuss this year’s Maryland Humanities One Maryland One Book selection, Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford.
Join us to discuss this year’s One Maryland One Book selection, “Kin: Rooted in Hope”, by Carole Boston Weatherford with art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Free copies of the 2025 OMOB selection will be available at all HCPL locations this summer, while supplies last. Please call your favorite branch to check on book availability. One […]
Join a thoughtful conversation about the 2025 One Maryland One Book selection: “Kin: Rooted in Hope” by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Share your insights, hear different perspectives, and connect with fellow readers.
We will explore stories about genealogy, the importance of having many stories, and how one artist shows us if art can amend stories in history.
Hybrid in form, and even more expansive in what it has to say, “Kin: Rooted in Hope” is a book created by, and about, a Black family and its generations.Poet and children’s author Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherford, collaborated on this book that gives voice to their earliest enslaved ancestors […]
Join us to discuss this year’s Maryland Humanities One Maryland One Book selection, Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford.
Join us for casual conversation and coffee. Share stories and reminisce about the past through prompts and activities.
Join us to discuss this year’s One Maryland One Book selection, “Kin: Rooted in Hope”, by Carole Boston Weatherford with art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Free copies of the 2025 OMOB selection will be available at all HCPL locations this summer, while supplies last. Please call your favorite branch to check on book availability. One […]