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Caroline County Public Library
Library Corner www.carolib.org
info@carolib.org
410-479-1343
by Carolyn Al-Ghusbi

Library Hours read, write, sing, talk, and play. This March 25, 2pm, Room 104 at the
DENTON month’s kit includes color matching and Fretterd Community Center, 107
Monday through Friday: 10 am - 6 pm counting. South Fourth Street, Denton
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
Kits are available until they’re gone. MakerSpace Open Lab
FEDERALSBURG Designed for children aged birth to age
Monday, Wednesday, Th ursday and 5. Did you know the library has educational
Friday: 10 am-2 pm and 3-6 pm STEM kits? Come to our Makerspace
March 6, All Branches
Tuesday: Noon-2 pm and 3-8 pm Open Lab to see what we’ve got and try
GREENSBORO Meet the Author: Ernst Selig it out. Available kits may include Snap
Circuits, microscopes, Magnatiles, and
Monday through Friday
The Caroline County Public Library more!
10 am-2 pm and 3-6 pm
invites you to another Meet the Author
*For programs requiring registration, visit event featuring Ernst Selig, who will Kids ages 5 and up are welcome.
carolib.org or call 410-479-1343. discuss his new autobiography, “Memoirs March 27, 4pm, Federalsburg
of a 16-Year-Old Immigrant: Forged
Visit us upstairs during renovations for in Adversity, Crowned with Honor”. March 30, 4pm, Greensboro
public computers, print, scan, and fax Beginning with his emigration to the
services, and a small browsing collection. United States from Nazi Germany as a Upcoming
Th e fi rst floor of the central library will teenager and detailing his world travels Celeste-Marie Bernier

continue to be closed for construction. For with the U.S. military, Mr. Selig’s memoir Presentation about the
more information, visit https://carolib.org shares nearly 100 years of personal
experience and wisdom gained in a life Fredrick Douglass Family
The Caroline County Public Library and

New marked by tumult, perseverance and

Take, Play, and Learn Activity Kit public service. This is Mr. Selig’s second Caroline County Historical Society are

book. His first book was published in
pleased to partner with the Frederick

Need a fun indoor activity to do with 2014 and is entitled “The Troops Need
Douglass Honor Society, Easton, to
the little ones? Pick up a Take, Play, and Knowledge, Training and Justice”, which
host Dr. Celeste-Marie Bernier for
Learn Activity Kit. Each kit includes covers his 22 years of military service in
a presentation about the Family of
an item to make with your child. Th e the United States Army. Copies of his
Frederick Douglass on Th ursday, April
activity is based on one or more of the new book will be available for purchase.
6 from 5 pm - 6 pm at the Museum of

five practices that build literacy skills:
Rural Life in Denton. Professor Celeste-
Marie Bernier is Chair of United States
and Atlantic Studies at the University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is the
author, editor, and curator of over 85
books, exhibitions, essays, and digital
educational resources. Her forthcoming
books include Douglass Family Lives:
The Anna Murray and Frederick
Douglass Family Collected Works and
Biography:
Book 1-6, The Anna Murray and
Frederick Douglass Family Selected
Writings: A Reader, and Battleground:
African American Art (1985-2015). She
is the recipient of a UK Leverhulme
Major Research Fellowship Award
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