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Chevy Chase Book Club - One Maryland One Book - OMOB

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Join us for the 2025 OMOB selection, "Kin: Rooted in Hope". This volume of verse by Carole Boston Weatherford and her son Jeffrey 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. 

Learn more about the OMOB program, and visit the author's website. See more county events honoring Remembrance and Reconciliation Month here.

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