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SUMMARY:One Maryland One Book Discussion: "Kin: Rooted in Hope" 
LOCATION:Largo-Kettering\nLargo-Kettering
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DESCRIPTION:Join a thoughtful conversation about the 2025 One Maryland One
  Book selection\, "Kin: Rooted in Hope" written by Carole Boston Weatherfo
 rd and illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. Share your insights\, he
 ar different perspectives\, and connect with fellow readers. .\nhttps://pg
 cmls.libnet.info/event/14463644
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>A multi-generational family history told i
 n the voices of the author's ancestors\, spanning enslavement alongside Fr
 ederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation\, service in the U.S. 
 Colored Troops\, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communit
 ies. An imaginative and moving portrait of a Black family tree shaped by e
 nslavement and freedom\, rendered in searing poems by&nbsp\;ALSC Children&
 rsquo\;s Literature Legacy Award winner&nbsp\;Carole Boston Weatherford an
 d stunning art by her son Jeffery Boston Weatherford.</p>\n<p>Find the boo
 k in our collection: <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/t
 itle.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1468384">Book</a> | <a href=
 "https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&am
 p\;pos=2&amp\;cn=1619334">eAudiobook</a> | <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls
 .info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=3&amp\;cn=161976
 7">eBook</a></p>\n<p>About "Kin: Rooted in Hope" written by Carole Boston 
 Weatherford and illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford:</p>\n<p><em>I c
 all their names:</em><br /><em>Abram Alice Amey Arianna Antiqua</em><br />
 <em>I call their names:</em><br /><em>Isaac Jake James Jenny Jim</em><br /
 ><em>Every last one\, property of the Lloyds\,</em><br /><em>the state&rsq
 uo\;s preeminent enslavers.</em><br /><em>Every last one\, with a mind of 
 their own</em><br /><em>and a story that ain&rsquo\;t yet been told.</em><
 br /><em>Till now.</em></p>\n<p><em><img src="https://static.libnet.info/f
 rontend-images/editor/pgcmls/6_24_25_Kin_Book.jpg" width="389" height="585
 " alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;"
  /></em></p>\n<p>Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford&rsquo\;s ancestors 
 are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends mor
 e than three hundred years\, but as with the genealogical searches of many
  African Americans with roots in slavery\, their family tree can only be t
 raced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of histo
 ry\, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin\, creating a
 n often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were i
 n a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universa
 l.</p>\n<p>Carole&rsquo\;s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors
  to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land 
 itself that connects them all\, and Jeffery&rsquo\;s evocative illustratio
 ns help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as pro
 perty in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother&rsquo\;s homegoing trip to Afr
 ica in 2016. Shaped by loss\, erasure\, and ultimate reclamation\, this is
  the story of not only Carole and Jeffery&rsquo\;s family\, but of countle
 ss other Black families in America.</p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/
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