Tuesday, April 22 - Our annual favorite poem evening. Please read one of your favorites. Let us know the name of the poem, and your name, by next Monday. We do need to put together the program.
This is a wonderful event, and its success depends entirely upon contributions from the community. Crowd-sourcing at its best.
In the past, favorites have included such poems as Allen Ginsburg's America, Langston Hughes' Genius Child, selections from Robert Bringhurst's Conversations With a Toad, e.e. cummings' When the Serpent Bargains for the Right to Squirm and Max Ehrnmann's Desiderata (read last year by the late Kay Daniels-Cohen).
We want you to share what you love most.
Please call 301.891.7259. And even if you are not reading, please come by on Tuesday evening at 7:30.
Emmy-award winner Armando Trull will talk about his life as a journalist tomorrow Wednesday April 16 at 7:30 p.m. Trull's talk is sponsored by the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library as part of their annual meeting. All are welcome to attend and join us for a reception after Trull speaks. Learn more about Trull's background here: Armando Trull | WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio
Today, the 12th of April, is Takoma Park's Arbor Day. Come to the library lawn for free native saplings, rides up in enormous cherry pickers (bring your camera), professional tree climbing equipment to explore, American Chestnut seeds, informative displays and a huge crowd of friends and neighbors.
Note: Today is perfect. 68F, sunshine, the first flowers and blossom-covered trees.
Maryland tobacco slave, sold south to a cotton plantation, rented out as a sailor, fought with Barney's flotille in the Chesapeake Bay and at the Battle of Bladensburg ... and more. As a fugituve slave he wrote Slavery in the United States which we are reading in our history of American capitalism MOOC.
Join us on Sunday, the 6th, at 12:30 to discuss American slavery as well as Napolean and Haiti, the Baring Brothers, the New England textile mills, wage labor, and the importance of cotton to both North and South.