• Thursday, April 11, gather in the reading room to hear local poets recite their poetry starting at 6 :30 p.m. All poets are welcome to share as well.

 Other Events at MCPL:

• Sunday, April 14, Coffee Rings and Scribbled Things Writers’ Circle-1:30-2:30 p.m.

• Sunday, April 14, An Afternoon with Jemima Boone: A Chautauqua Performance Featuring Betsy Smith at 2:30p.m in the meeting room.

• Monday, April 15, Music Monday at 6 p.m. in the meeting room and will feature local artist Brian Moffett performing Appalachian music.

• Tuesday, April 16, Storytime Easter Celebration at 11 a.m in the meeting room Ms. Short will host an Easter Celebration for all story groups.

• Saturday, April 20, Family Fun Day from 1-4 p.m in the meeting room and will include board games, prizes, and coloring. Snacks are provided.

• Tuesday, April 23, Lunch Bunch Book Club at noon in the meeting room This month the book club will discuss Sue Henry’s novel “The Serpents Trail.”

• Thursday, April 25, Couponing Club at 2 p.m in the meeting room. The library will provide coupons collected and encourage others to bring coupons to share.

• Friday, April 26, Friday Family Flicks at 7 p.m in the meeting room.

• Sunday, April 2, performance titled “Roscoe Tarleton Goose,” at 2:30 p.m. in the meeting room. Eddie Price will present Roscoe Tarleton Goose, one of the most famous Kentucky jockeys to have ever raced and won.

Weekly Events throughout the Month of April

• Children’s Storytimes with Ms. Short in the children’s activity room

• Pretty Important Preschoolers (ages 3-5 yrs.) Tuesdays at 11 a.m.

• Terrific Toddlers (ages 18 mos.-2yrs) Wednesdays at 11 a.m.

• Baby Bounce (ages newborn-18 mos.) Will be starting back up on Thursday, March 14, at 11:30 a.m.

All programs are free and open to the public.  The library is wheelchair accessible.  Other auxiliary aids for library use will be provided when requested in advance.

• Friday, April 12, join in Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) at 10 a.m. The library will host refreshments in the gallery from 9:30 to 10 a.m. followed by a “Read In” in which everyone in the library will spend time reading. Those who can’t make it to the library,  can read at 10 a.m. and send the picture or video to the library.

Other Events at MCPL:

• Sunday, April 14, Coffee Rings and Scribbled Things Writers’ Circle-1:30-2:30 p.m.

• Sunday, April 14, An Afternoon with Jemima Boone: A Chautauqua Performance Featuring Betsy Smith at 2:30p.m in the meeting room.

• Monday, April 15, Music Monday at 6 p.m. in the meeting room and will feature local artist Brian Moffett performing Appalachian music.

• Tuesday, April 16, Storytime Easter Celebration at 11 a.m in the meeting room Ms. Short will host an Easter Celebration for all story groups.

• Saturday, April 20, Family Fun Day from 1-4 p.m in the meeting room and will include board games, prizes, and coloring. Snacks are provided.

• Tuesday, April 23, Lunch Bunch Book Club at noon in the meeting room This month the book club will discuss Sue Henry’s novel “The Serpents Trail.”

• Thursday, April 25, Couponing Club at 2 p.m in the meeting room. The library will provide coupons collected and encourage others to bring coupons to share.

• Friday, April 26, Friday Family Flicks at 7 p.m in the meeting room.

• Sunday, April 2, performance titled “Roscoe Tarleton Goose,” at 2:30 p.m. in the meeting room. Eddie Price will present Roscoe Tarleton Goose, one of the most famous Kentucky jockeys to have ever raced and won.

Weekly Events throughout the Month of April

• Children’s Storytimes with Ms. Short in the children’s activity room

• Pretty Important Preschoolers (ages 3-5 yrs.) Tuesdays at 11 a.m.

• Terrific Toddlers (ages 18 mos.-2yrs) Wednesdays at 11 a.m.

• Baby Bounce (ages newborn-18 mos.) Will be starting back up on Thursday, March 14, at 11:30 a.m.

All programs are free and open to the public.  The library is wheelchair accessible.  Other auxiliary aids for library use will be provided when requested in advance.

Join us for a celebration of off-road running and hiking with distances for every level! The courses will take participants through the Preserve’s amazing spring scenery on a variety of single track and turf trails.

Pre-registration ended on March 29, 2019. Participants may register for the race day-of.

Day Of Registration Prices

5K: $30 per person
10K: $45 per person
25k: $70 per person

This event is open to guests of all ages, and awards will be given to the overall winners for each distance!

Race shirts and medals are included with online registrations, but cannot be guaranteed for day-of registrants.  

The Old Fort Harrod State Park is hosting a Grand Council re-enactment on Saturday, April 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“The Grand Council is a small re-enactment meant to show the political strife between the pioneers and natives here on the frontier,” said David Coleman, park manager.  “The entire thing is unscripted and completely off the cuff.  We don’t even know who will be here to play the different roles so it really does flow and feel like a real council every time. “

Although there is no documentation that a council ever took place at Fort Harrod the event was common on the frontier.

“As tradition tells us, the natives would have been invited into the fort and escorted to the council fire.  They would then ‘bless’ the fire and pass the peace pipe around indicating they had accepted the settler’s offer of peaceful conversation. They would then spend as much time as they liked explaining their position with no interruptions,” said Coleman.“The whole party would then break for the night, and then the next day the settlers would have their chance to speak their minds.”

Coleman said the re-enactment cannot break for a night so they just speak for a few minutes and then present the case.

According to Coleman this council sets the stage for the settlement and raid re-enactment that occurs in June.

For more information, visit the fort’s website at parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-harrod.

The Mercer County Public Library is presenting a Chautauqua character, Jemima Boone played by Betsy Smith on Sunday, April 14 at 2:30 p.m. called “An Afternoon with Jemima Boone.”

“We are excited to share this experience with history buffs, writers, lifelong learners, and those just curious about the past. This is a great opportunity to hear what life was like during the days of Daniel Boone,” said Tracy Munday, adult programmer for the library.  “We believe this will be a great experience for people of all ages. The program is free and open to the public. We hope to see everyone at the library this week.”

Jemima Boone was the fourth child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone. She was born in North Carolina, on Oct. 4, 1762, and helped pioneer two American frontiers: Kentucky and Missouri. Boone is the star of one of the most best-known stories to come out of Kentucky’s pioneer past, when in July 1776, she was kidnapped by a group of Native Americans. Boone was 14-years-old at the time and her father, Daniel Boone,  led a search party that rescued the girls after three days in captivity.

The Chautauqua Character stories are part of the Kentucky Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is supported by the National Endowment and by private contributions.

For more information visit the library website at www.mcplib.info/ or the Kentucky Humanities website at www.kyhumanities.org.