Inspired by this year’s One Maryland One Book theme What We Collect/What We Tell, and the selected book Kin: Rooted in Hope, participants will create an individual scrapbook with words and images representing their family story. The library will supply a scrapbook and crafting supplies; participants are encouraged to bring photocopied family photos or other ephemera to incorporate if desired.

"Kin: Rooted in Hope" is "a multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.  Free copies are available at all branches starting on September 2nd while supplies last.

One Maryland One Book is a program of Maryland Humanities presented in partnership with Howard County Library System and is sponsored by The Institute of Museum and Library Services via the Maryland State Library Agency.