Enoch Pratt Free Library

 
Possible prizes include T-shirts, toys, and Orioles tickets!

This year, the Enoch Pratt Free Library's annual Summer Reading Program has something for everyone! Whether you are 8 or 85, you can join in on the fun. Babies, Children, Teens and Adults can all participate. What better way to spend a lazy summer afternoon than escaping into a great read? And what could be cooler than winning prizes for your efforts? Go here for more information: http://www.prattlibrary.org/home/index.aspx?ID=53052 

This year, the Enoch Pratt Free Library's annual Summer Reading Program has something for everyone! Whether you are 8 or 85, you can join in on the fun. Babies, Children, Teens and Adults can all participate. What better way to spend a lazy summer afternoon than escaping into a great read? And what could be cooler than winning prizes for your efforts? Please come and join us for our Hawaiian Luau to kickoff the summer season on June 12th, 2010 from 12-4. There will be food, games, and prizes! Go here for more information: http://www.prattlibrary.org/home/index.aspx?ID=53052 

These days, everyone needs a little help! The Enoch Pratt Free Library is happy to accomodate its patrons with professional and friendly income tax assistance for absolutley no cost. The A.A.R.P. (American Association of Retired Persons) will be volunteering their time at four different Pratt locations to help senior citizens, low and middle income residents file their taxes professionally. E-filing will only be available at the Brooklyn, Walbrook and Hamilton Branches. To see the locations, dates and times please click on the following link:

 http://www.prattlibrary.org/calendar/series.aspx?folder=1870&mark=tax+help 

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A psychic runaway slave, a murderous female slave catcher and her motley gang, the secret language of the Underground Railroad, the burning issue of the morality of human ownership, the precarious relationships between African-Americans and the white people of the Delmarva Peninsula in the 1850’s…this is Song Yet Sung, by James McBride. A novel that is astonishingly familiar to me, and not just for the fact that it takes place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (I am a Maryland native), but because of the words themselves. They are not over-descriptive, but they pick you up and transport you into the story so deeply, that you can hear the blue herons and smell the salt from the Chesapeake. I truly do believe that this book is spiritually charged. It’s like a spell that weaves its way into you with the simplest, but raw and emotional language. The story takes you through history as it reveals true characters like the infamous Patty Cannon and even the great Moses (Harriet Tubman) herself. This year do yourself and your community a favor and read Song Yet Sung. Be sure to share the book with family and friends and come to a book discussion at your local library this fall. For more information on the One Maryland, One Book program: http://www.mdhc.org/programs/one-maryland-one-book/.