Perler Beads are plastic fusible beads. Beads are arranged on pegboards to form patterns and then fused together with an iron. Stop by the Wheelock branch from 3:30-4:30pm and share your creativity at the library and take home the Perler Bead designs you created.

Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.  About the book: Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Copies of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle are available in multiple formats. Please call the library for assistance with locating or reserving a copy, 253-280-2800. Copies are also available at Wheelock while they last.

Black History Month is a time to learn and reflect on the history and accomplishments of the Black and African American leaders and innovators who have helped shape our world. Join us each week as we explore a new person and create a craft.

Black History Month is a time to learn and reflect on the history and accomplishments of the Black and African American leaders and innovators who have helped shape our world. Join us each week as we explore a new person and create a craft.

Tap into your memories to create poems or a hybrid creation of part poetry and memoir. We will do a writing prompt followed by free writing. Open to all adults. Instructor Celeste Schueler holds an MFA in creative writing from Mississippi University for Women. She has been published in various magazines, an anthology, and online.

Register Here Experience what life was like for Buffalo Soliders out West during this hands-on program. Kids will make animal tracks, use a saddle, and identify the ways buffalo were used with help from staff at the 9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Tacoma. Since its founding in 2005, Tacoma’s Buffalo Soldiers Museum has served as a community resource encompassing a significant – and all too often overlooked – facet of American history. This program is funded through the Tacoma Creates initiative.

Black History Month is a time to learn and reflect on the history and accomplishments of the Black and African American leaders and innovators who have helped shape our world. Join us each week as we explore a new person and create a craft.