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...
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the podunk librarian
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...
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