Friends’ Programs

Children and adults alike were spellbound by storyteller Jerry Cowling on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at the Knotts Public Library in Yankeetown, Florida.  Mr. Cowling told classic fairy tales, Aesop fables and stories from his own imagination.Pizza and cupcakes made the afternoon complete.  This program was sponsored by the Friends of the A.F. Knotts Library.

January 17, 2011: the Friends along with The Florida Humanities Council proudly presented:
Dr.Gary Mormino and “The Florida Dream”
Dr. Mormino is Professor of History at University of South Florida and author of
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida

Dr. Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America’s southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee–a day’s walk from the Georgia border–to Miami–a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti–Mormino traces the themes of Florida’s transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Winner of the 2006 Charlton Tebeau Book Award and recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 2007.

On December 11, 2010
The Friends hostedHoliday Decoration Making for Children as part of their Children’s Outreach Endeavors.