Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Two 1933-1938, By Blanche Wiesen Cook

Cook's detailed and extensively researched biography focuses in this volume on Eleanor Roosevelt's public life during the New Deal, but also delves into the secrets of her private life.

In time for Earth Day, Arts Specialist Elizabeth Morisette will lead students at four College Park elementary schools to create wish eggs for the earth using recycled paper basketry. Then, the public is invited to get together with friends and family at the Old Parish House to create a woven nest for the eggs, to be displayed around College Park.

Sunday, April 27, 2 – 4 pm at Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park.
Instructor Aaron Springer leads an imaginative and creative free-form arts afternoon that children and parents will enjoy together, ideal for children ages 3-8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION:
May 11, Noon – 1 pm, Gymkana Gym, UM Campus.

Come learn cool tricks on real gymnastic equipment with the University of Maryland Gymkana troupe! Kids combine fun and fitness as they tumble, bounce, and roll. Remember to come dressed to move--wear comfortable clothes and sneakers. This free activity is ideal for kids 5-12.

The Gymkana Gym is located on the University of Maryland campus, in Building 255, the Health and Human Performance Building, on Valley Drive. From U.S. Route 1 in College Park, turn onto Campus Drive. At the circle bear right onto Regents Drive. Take the third left onto Farm Drive and then an immediate right onto Valley Drive.

On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, by Lisa See

See tells a thoroughly reseached historical narrative of her family's movement from China to Los Angeles. Some say the heart of the book is the complicated inter-racial relationship between her grandfather Fong and her grandmother Ticie, a white pioneer woman.

Sunday, June 1, 2 – 4 pm at Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park.
Plaster Casting: take an impression of your child's hand that will last a lifetime.
Instructor Aaron Springer leads an imaginative and creative free-form arts afternoon that children and parents will enjoy together, ideal for children ages 3-8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

This book discusses a man's stay in a remote village and how the hospitality of strangers influences him to take up a mission to bring change to that remote area.