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The Frog Princess
Children ages 3 through 8 are invited to attend a performance of
“The Frog Princess”
Tuesday, May 13 at 11:00am.
The 30-minute play will be performed by Shooting Star Theatre, a children’s theatre group directed by Emma Ryan and co-directed by Casey Ryan. The performance will be presented by 7 homeschooled actresses between the ages of 3 and 11 who created the story development, set and costume design, and sound effects. No registration required.
Coventry Public Library Book Discussion Group
Our Nig: or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black
by Harriet E. Wilson
12:30, Thursday, May 22
This powerful narrative was published in 1859; the first book published by a Negro woman in United States. Ms. Wilson wrote this autobiographical novel as a single mother in an attempt to support herself and her young son. The novel follows Frado’s indentured servitude under a Northern abolitionist family. The biographical information and scholarly research work on Wilson included in this edition segues into the need for racial reform and the call for women’s rights and our next month’s selection.
Harriet and Isabella
12:30, Thursday, June 26
by Patricia O’Brien
Harriet Beecher Stowe focused the country’s attention on racism while her sister, Isabella, lead the suffragist movement. Their loyalties divide when their famous preacher brother, Henry Ward Beecher, became embroiled in the sex scandal of the century.
