Black History Month Story Walk™ at Munro Preserve, Mattapoisett
Time & Location
Feb 01, 2025, 8:00 AM – Feb 28, 2025, 4:00 PM
Munro Preserve, 1 Main St, Mattapoisett, MA 02739, USA
About the Event
We are thrilled to be collaborating with the Mattapoisett Land Trust for the third Black History Month Story Walk™ at Dunseith Gardens located at the corner of Rt. 6 and North St. The walk will be up for the entire month of February. To learn more about this trail and the Mattapoisett Land Trust visit https://mattlandtrust.org
This year we will feature "There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)by Jason Reynolds.
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.
Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people…