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Gadsby’s Tavern Museum Family Day
On Sunday, Nov 10, 1-4 p.m., families are invited to tour the historic tavern as Junior Docents, volunteers from grades 4 through 7, share their enthusiasm for history. To honor Veteran’s Day and American Legion Post #24 who helped save these buildings, all veterans, active duty military personnel and their immediate families will receive free admission. Ticket is $5 per adult and $3 per child (ages 5 through 12). Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St. Alexandria, VA. visitalexandriava.com BELOW: Junior Docents giving a tour of Gadsby’s Tavern Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Gadsby’s Tavern Museum.
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Around The World Storytime at MLK Library
Come and read, sing and dance with stories and songs from around the world. This story time will be partially in English and also feature songs and stories in a variety of foreign languages. For ages 0-5. Mondays, Oct 21 and 28; and Nov 4 and 18 at 1 p.m. Call 202-727-1248 for more details. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321. dclibrary.org/mlk
GALita’s Fabulas Mayas
In this entertaining children’s play, the Creator and Shaper, provides lessons about life through the creatures they create to populate the earth. A bilingual adaptation of traditional Mayan legends and fables that features puppets, music and song. Produced in collaboration with Wit’s End Puppets. Student matinee presentations with post-performance discussion. Oct 21-Nov 2. GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. 202-234-7174. galatheatre.org GALita is dedicated to producing children’s theater in both Spanish and English that inspires a sense of joy, discovery, pride and self-identity in the community’s youngest children.
Mayor Gray Opens New Hamilton Playground
On Sept 13, Mayor Vincent Gray and other dignitaries joined community members for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly renovated Hamilton Playground at 1340 Hamilton St. NW. Keeping the “natural feel” of the residential neighborhood, the playground includes climbing boulders and logs as well as the “Megatower” play structure, one of the tallest play structures in the District. Other amenities include renovated basketball courts, a new soccer/futsal court, play equipment, outdoor fitness equipment, new rubber surfacing, a shade shelter and a new community garden with a storage shed and a compost bin in line with the principles of the Mayor’s Sustainable DC initiative. Hamilton playground is the eighth play space to be completed under Mayor Gray’s Play DC playground improvement initiative.
Children’s Sabbath at Washington National Cathedral
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On Sunday, Oct 20, 10:10 a.m., Marian Wright Edelman discusses the importance of Children’s Sabbath with Dean Gary Hall. Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children’s Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 began CDF. nationalcathedral.org