Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Night Catch Military families often deal with a parent who may deploy or receive an assignment taking them away from their families. This book shares the story of a soldier who helps his son with a creative way to deal with an upcoming...

Actor, writer, and historian, Annapolis' own, Chris Haley, will read poems by renowned poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Audre Lourde.  African American literature has existed and flourished throughout our nation's history. In spite of living through often oppressive and racially violent times, people of color penned their stories of love, loss, joy and pain, and the challenge and fight for equality. Haley, a nephew of famed author Alex Haley, will deliver poems which exemplify these themes as penned by some of America's...