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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room
Many historical records also focus on men, with women listed only under their husbands’ names. Johnna will introduce and explain strategies for researching female ancestors, including information about sources at LPL and beyond.
Registration is recommended but not required to attend in person or as a webinar from your own device.
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Beaumont Branch - Collaborative Learning Space
Join Kentucky Down Under for an educational encounter with some unique live animals! Learn about their habitats, diets, and more. For grades K-5. No registration required.
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Eastside Branch - Children's Program Room
Join us at Eastside Branch to celebrate Juneteenth with games, music and historical time capsules!
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Northside Branch - Story Room
Come make some art in the afternoon! This process art program is for Kindergarten-5th grade. No registration is required.
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Marksbury Family Branch - Keeneland Community Room
Express yourself and get ready for summer!
Personalize your own bucket hat with a mix of patches!
WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. No registration required.
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Marksbury Family Branch - Community Room A
Exercise your creativity by making a rainbow windchime to celebrate Pride Month. Recommended for ages 6-12. No registration required. While supplies last.
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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room
Kids and caregivers will use supplies to turn cardboard boxes into cars and enjoy a drive-in movie. Please bring a preschooler-size cardboard box to the event. Other materials will be provided. Recommended for toddlers and preschoolers with caregivers.
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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room
Bring your poetry, prose, or other short writing and join us every other month at our Open Mic Night series for an opportunity to share your work! Please keep performances to around 3-4 minutes.
For teens and up. No registration required.
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Beaumont Branch - Large Meeting Room
Can you defy gravity? Find out with art and science challenges. For ages 5 and up. No reservations required.
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Beaumont Branch - Large Meeting Room
Stop by the Beaumont Branch to make a pom pom garland in the colors of your Pride Flag - or whatever colors you want!
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Northside Branch - Classroom
Kristen Pearson of Glitter Green Thumb will walk attendees through growing an at-home pumpkin patch and how to successfully grow all of these beautiful options in this FREE workshop. Registration requested.
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Eastside Branch - Large Meeting Room
Join us for a book discussion on the Community Reads selection for 2025, Happiness Falls by Angie Kim.
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Beaumont Branch - Large Meeting Room
Kevin Lane Dearinger [Dare-in-jer] [he, his] is a retired Broadway actor-singer and English teacher. His publications include The Theatrical Life of Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Bard in the Bluegrass, Marie Prescott, Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre, several volumes of poetry, two memoirs (Bad Sex in Kentucky and On Stage with Bette Davis), as well as several plays.
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Northside Branch - Large Meeting Room
Join the Fayette County Extension & Master Gardeners for FREE plant giveaways in May, June and July at Northside! Prepare your spring and summer garden with free plants in May, then learn to attract pollinators with more FREE plants and seeds in June, and in July join us for more FREE fall garden and herb seeds.
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Northside Branch - Large Meeting Room
Join the Fayette County Extension & Master Gardeners for FREE plant giveaways in May, June and July at Northside! Prepare your spring and summer garden with free plants in May, then learn to attract pollinators with more FREE plants and seeds in June, and in July join us for more FREE fall garden and herb seeds.
Mariam discusses the life of Margaret Garner, the real life Kentucky Woman who inspired Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved. This episode may be difficult for some listeners to hear, listener’s discretion is advised.
Alexa and Jennifer discuss what they've read and enjoyed lately. This is the final episode of Checked Out, but please look forward to our new podcast series, coming in January 2022!
Do you love to read? Would you like to recommend some books for other readers? This opportunity is for you!
The Publications Collection contains runs of historical Kentucky newspapers, almanacs, and magazines.
Erin guests to tell the story of one of Lexington’s oldest unsolved murders – the killing of Alexander T. Hays in October 1846.
Enjoy this discussion of Lexington born Major League Baseball players that was cut from the KY Baseball episode.
Mariam interviews Wayne Johnson about the murder of golfing great Marion Miley in Lexington, KY in 1941. This is part two of a two part series.
Mariam and Wayne discuss the 1968 removal of the railroad tracks from Downtown Lexington in time for the 50th
Mariam interviews Terry Foody, author of The Cherokee and the Newsman: Kinsmen in Words. They discuss Ms. Foody’s inspiration to write about the two men, their family lives, and how their words contributed to their communities.
