Harlan County Public Libraries

Bryan W. Whitfield, Jr. Public Library

Summer Reading Programs 2009
Harlan County Public Library-Preschool-School Age-Teens
Rebecca Caudill Public Library-Preschool-School Age-Teens

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival will be coming to our area on June 25th, 2009. A Midsummer Night's Dream will be performed at the Harlan County High School theatre at 1:00 p.m. for grades K-12th. Later that evening at 5:00 p.m. there will be a stage combat workshop open to the first 20 teens who sign-up. A Shakeperian Dance Workshop will follow at 6:00 p.m. This also will be open to the first 20 teens who sign-up. Every program is Free to the public.

Local Folks
Library director provides glimpse of medieval experience. Rich Haynes, director of the Whitfield Public Library in Harlan, uses
his experience as a SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism) member
to allow area children the opportunity to get the feel for the real medieval
times by allowing them to see him dressed in his armor as well as allowing
them the experience of being able to practice the combat of the era.

Haynes, a paid member of the SCA since he was a freshman in
college, said the area children love to get involved with the medieval
armored foot combat in which he specializes because it gives them
a real sense of being able to see first hand how the warriors of that time lived.

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