A Carnegie Library serving the Pittsfield, Burnham, and Detroit communities
If you’re between the ages of 4 and 10, join us on the third Thursdays of each month for games, stories, activities and food as we celebrate the cultures around our globe.
This month we’ll be learning about Irish history and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with games, crafts, food and fun!
This event is brought to you in part by a Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation grant.
The early middle ages was a dangerous and unsettled time, but for all that, Ireland, on the very edge of European civilization, was largely spared the violence brought first by the Romans, and then Saxons and others. So it was a particular shock when a new and unforeseen enemy — the Northmen in their fast and seaworthy ships — suddenly appeared over the horizon, bringing terror to the Irish shores. Historian and novelist James L. Nelson will discuss the Viking incursions into Ireland, and how the Norse invasion changed over hundreds of years from raiding to settling to ultimately a melding with Irish culture. Please register here: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcuGqpj8jHNCHf2PIXiquw3RTa6uSo4JD
