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Mr. Paca’s Garden Storytime: “The Mitten”

William Paca House and Garden 186 Prince George Street , Annapolis

Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (4-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. Nicki begged his grandmother “BaBa” for a pair of white mittens. Although she warned him that white mittens might be hard to find if they are lost in the snow, she made them for him anyway. Unfortunately, Nicki loses one of the mittens in the snow....

Virtual Lecture – The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin

Franklin's genius is a puzzle. Born the tenth son of a humble family of puritan candle-makers in Boston in 1706, Franklin's rise to the front ranks of science, engineering, and invention was as unexpected as it was meteoric. Here is a man with only two years of proper schooling who later received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and St. Andrews as well as the eighteenth-century equivalent of a Nobel Prize for Physics. Like his hero Isaac Newton, Franklin's great genius lay in optimizing, in tinkering, in improving, and in...