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.

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.

Can your rocket make it to the moon?! Explore computational thinking with a fun paper coding game. This activity is inspired by Katherine Johnson and the other Black female NASA mathematicians who helped Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969. Check out these kid's titles for more information about the women of Hidden Figures: Hidden Figures Counting on Katherine Hidden Figures Reaching for the Moon

Join the Wheelock Book Club for a discussion of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.  About the book: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Copies of Sea of Tranquility are available in multiple formats. Please call the library for assistance […]