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  • SLC Super Saturday: Art Adventures at Your Library

    Planned in conjunction with FestivALL, your library friends are ready for everyone to stop by and register for Summer Library Club, play lawn games, try your hand at splash painting, vote for your favorites in the Tiny Art Show, and enjoy free snacks! The fun is on the Library’s Capitol Street Plaza from 11am to 2pm. If inclement weather, join us inside in Children’s Services (4th floor).

    Be sure to check out the Library’s Annual Used Book Sale from 9:30am to 4pm. All proceeds help fund library programs and services.

    For more information, visit kcpls.org.

    Sponsored by

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  • History Alive: Nellie Bly

    Nellie Bly, adventurer, inventor, and ground-breaking investigative reporter was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. In 1887, to be hired as a reporter with Pulitzer’s New York The World, she feigned insanity to get committed to a lunatic asylum with no guarantee of release. Her subsequent articles on the conditions and treatment of the “patients” led to improvements in the care for the mentally ill. In January of 1890, she bested the time of the fictional Phileas Fogg from the book, Around the World in Eighty Days. 

    This is part of the History Alive program from the WV Humanities Council.

    Nellie Bly portrayed by JoAnn Peterson of Kingwood.

    Registration required in advance


    REGISTER HERE (opens June 7)