Don’t miss the excitement this week and next at the Daviess County Library’s summer reading program, “A Universe of Stories in S.T.E.A.M.” This week the library will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s trip to the moon and safe return to Earth.
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July 16 was “BLAST-OFF” with children watching “Max Goes to the Moon Planetarium Show,” produced by Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, CO, then discovering propulsion with a “Hopping Grains” experiment and “Race to the Moon” balloon races on the lawn.
July 18 at 10 a.m. Rocket Club will build a planetarium on the lawn with Bob Riddle and library staff, then add their own constellations and tour the universe—of course, there will be Cootie-Catchers and galaxy mobiles, too.
July 20 is the big day, celebrating with a “TOUCHDOWN” party at 10:17 a.m. with more “Race to the Moon” and crafts, then when the library closes a movie will be shown in the basement (pack a sack lunch or bring $1 for a hotdog or macaroni) with more science and making moonboots in the afternoon. The grand finale “MOONWALK” and big screen footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ON. THE. MOON. is scheduled for exactly 50 years at 4:17 p.m. Programs are all kid-friendly, but the library knows there’s a kid in all of us, so they’re even grown-up friendly—please feel free to drop in and check out the excitement.
Other activities coming down the pike are the monthly board meeting at 4 p.m. on July 18; Adult Computer Lab, 1-3 p.m. on July 19; and a guest visit by author Tanja Drecker at 10 a.m. on July 24. Then she’ll travel with SRP2Go to Jameson, Coffey, Pattonsburg and Winston to meet readers all around our county.
For more program information, check the calendar on the website www.daviesscountylibrary.org, then “Quick Links/Library Events”, visit the library or call 660-663-3222.