Friday, January 17th, 2025
09:30 am - 04:45 pm
Abingdon Library
2510 Tollgate Road
Abingdon, Maryland 21009
Harford County Public Library’s 7th Annual Fairy Tale & Superhero Festival takes place Friday, January 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the Abingdon Library, 2510 Tollgate Road in Abingdon.
Participants are invited to come dressed as their favorite fairy tale or superhero character or as an everyday superhero. Activities include scavenger hunts, dance parties, parachute and puppet play, prince/princess/superhero parade and a superhero training course.
STEM activities (including coloring sheets, scavenger hunts, sticker polls, Lego activities and matching games) feature 3 Billy Goats Bridge Building, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, Humpty Dumpty, Princess and the Pea Pattern Recognition and Yellow Brick Road Legos. Children can also make a variety of crafts focusing on Fairy House, Spiderman, superhero-themed cuffs, wizard gnomes and Rapunzel braids friendship bracelets.
Celebrity story time throughout the day features local community leaders sharing their favorite children’s picture books.
For more information about the festival, visit HCPLonline.org.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm
Rescheduled! Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay’s myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay iced up, the flow of commerce was seriously impeded. At the turn of the nineteenth century, with the center of the new nation’s government establishing its arms, a frozen Bay meant that the United States’ emergence to a status on par with the world’s foremost nations might be painfully slow. James Foster’s book, Icy Winters on the Chesapeake, chronicles the disasters and pitfalls, large and small, that come with the coldest of winters.
Learn more about the harrowing history of the Chesapeake Bay and winter’s impact on our shores at this virtual presentation at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, January 21st. Please visit our website at harfordhistory.org.
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Harford County Public Library presents “DNA: Just Beyond the Basics – Adding to Your Solid Foundation,” a virtual program January 27 from 6:30-8 p.m. as part of the Library’s Genealogy Week celebration. Peggy Jude will share how the effective use of DNA can further genealogical research. Building on the basics, this session will cover topics including working with a match list, determining how a match is related, prioritizing matches, tools to use to further research and the impact of endogamy and pedigree collapse on DNA matches. Advanced registration is required at https://programs.hcplonline.org/event/12107486.
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Harford County Public Library presents “Genealogy Week! Walk Where Your Ancestors Walked: Virtual Heritage Travel Using AI & Online Resources,” a virtual program on January 28 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. as part of the Library’s Genealogy Week celebration. Presenter Lisa Lisson will take participants on a trip to where their ancestors lived. Participants will walk where they walked, and see what they saw. Virtual heritage travel increases understanding of the cultural, political and economic circumstances surrounding ancestors which helps family historians to find ancestors and connect with them on a deeper level. Advanced registration is required at https://programs.hcplonline.org/event/12107494.
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Thursday, January 30th, 2025
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Harford County Public Library presents “Using Family Search: A FREE Genealogy Website,” a virtual program January 30 from 6:30-8 p.m. as part of the Library’s Genealogy Week celebration. This program offers an overview of the features and resources available at FamilySearch.org. Participants will look at building a family tree, searching historical records, saving photos and other memories, and the unique live help services available from FamilySearch and its local affiliate libraries and centers. (Family Search may be accessed from Harford County Public Library’s website at hcplonline.org/genealogy.php.) Advanced registration is required at https://programs.hcplonline.org/event/12107498.
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Friday, January 31st, 2025
06:00 pm - 09:00 pm
The Highlands School
2409 Creswell Road
Bel Air, Maryland 21015
HUNDO BINGO is back! EVERY PRIZE = $100 of gift cards
Friday, January 31st, 6:00-9:00 pm
$30 per person – INCLUDES 20 GAMES!
Prizes 50/50 Raffle
Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, Snacks & Fun!
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