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Olney Daytime Book Discussion Group - Virtual

Join us for a virtual discussion of "Kin: Rooted in Hope" by Carole Boston Weatherford with art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford, this year's One Maryland One Book title. All are welcome!

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Once you are signed in on Zoom, click on the emailed link to join the program.

According to the Maryland Humanities website:

"Hybrid in form, and even more expansive in what it has to say, Kin: Rooted in Hope is a book created by, and about, a Black family and its generations.

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."

Physical copies will be available at Olney Library. Please call 240-773-9545 during open hours to confirm before coming to the branch.

Digital copies may be available through MCPL's Overdrive/Libby catalog:

E-books:  https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/9598851

E-audio:  https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/9722066

Learn more about the One Maryland One Book program here, including biographical information on author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Information on their author tour (Oct 6-10, 2025) will be posted this summer.

One Maryland One Book is a program of the Maryland Humanities and the Maryland Center for the Book.

Registrants will be emailed information on accessing the virtual book discussion.

Please feel free to join the meeting early to check your connection, settings, etc.

Questions about this program? Contact the Olney branch at 240-773-9545. 

By joining this Virtual MCPL program, you agree to abide by our rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if we deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

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