Kensington Park Book Discussion - Live

October

This month's title is One Maryland One Book: Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford

The book discussion group meets the first Monday of each month at 12:00 PM unless there is a holiday. The title for this month is One Maryland One Book: Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford. 

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 back to the founding of Maryland. With each poem and its accompanying illustration, Carole and Jeffery tell their family story through each of their kin and the world they lived in: the Chesapeake Bay, the plantation house, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, and more. The selection committee was enthralled by how Kin uses art and poetry to illuminate what can’t be said by historical records (when they are available), in a vital story that is about Maryland’s past and its present. 

We will meet in the library garden if weather permits or in our downstairs meeting room.  Copies of the book can usually be found by asking at our check out desk for the book club title.  Newcomers always welcome! No registration is required. 

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