Halloween | thepodunklibrarian

Oct 17, 2023

Boo! at the Story Trail

Read "Ghost Afraid of the Dark" by Alex Willmore and Sara Conway and find a ghost along the trail for a spooky treat! At the end of the...

Oct 13, 2022

Feeding Nightmares: Horror in Kentucky Storytelling

This program was booked through the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau. Dread, deception, death, and dismemberment—such are the...

Oct 10, 2022

Halloween Puppet Show

Mr. Puppet Comedy Show features a Halloween theme with tons of laughs, tons of audience participation and best of all Trick or Treat...

Oct 6, 2022

History of Horror Films

This program was done by a film professor at the University of Pikeville and was done as a lecture with film clips.

Oct 4, 2022

Story Trail Scavenger Hunt Potions

October's book at the Story Trail was "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Our program for this book was Scavenger...

Oct 22, 2021

Hocus Pocus Interactive Movie Kits

Remembering the success of last Christmas's Interactive Movie Kits, I put together this Hocus Pocus take home kit with help from this...

Oct 21, 2021

The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock uncovered a world of the unknown--a world unknown to previous filmmakers and to audiences. He created a world where...

Oct 19, 2021

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Puppet Show

In this silly and non-scary version of Washington Irving’s classic piece of literature, children of all ages will follow the lanky school...

Oct 12, 2021

Mourning in Kentucky in the 1800s

Mourning the dead was an important part of life in the 19th century. Cynthia Williams Resor, Ph.D., will begin her time-travel tour of...

Oct 7, 2021

Halloween & the History of Witches

Have you ever wondered, especially on Halloween, why witches are depicted as riding on brooms through the nighttime sky? You're never...