Thanksgiving Holiday

Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle will be closed on Wednesday, November 27th. All other Library branches will close on Wednesday, November 27th, at 5 p.m. for the Thanksgiving Holiday and will reopen on Saturday, November 30th.

Black History Month Nature Storytime

Program Type:

Developing Skills, Science & Nature, Storytime

Age Group:

Children
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Program Description

Event Details

Learn about Nicodemus, Kansas, the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River and Junius G. Groves, the Potato King, who  came to Kansas as an Exoduster in 1879 with 90¢ in his pocket. At age 19, he first worked at the meat packing houses in Armourdale, Kansas, and later moved to Edwardsville, Kansas, where he engaged in sharecropping.

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