"Beyond the Beaten Path" Musical Adventure with Auntie Kayte
Summer Reading Club
Wednesday, June 26
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Main Library
AuditoriumSinger-songwriter Auntie Kayte (Kayte Deioma) enchants kids entering Grades K-6 in the manner of Mary Poppins, pulling props from a magic treasure chest to turn kids into pirates, princesses & more!
Award-winning singer-songwriter Auntie Kayte (Kayte Deioma) brings her creative songs and stories for conscious kids to schools, libraries, parks, museums and festivals from Southern California to Ohio. In "Beyond the Beaten Path," Auntie Kayte enchants kids entering Grades K-6 in the manner of Mary Poppins, pulling props and costumes from her magic treasure chest to turn kids into family-friendly pirates, smart princesses and more. Her irresistibly catchy songs use the power of music and words to plant seeds of self-confidence, creative thinking, responsibility and social consciousness in kids, using her melodic voice that transitions easily from high energy reggae and calypso to folk ballads and even a marching band! Her interactive songs spark a sense of adventure, exploration and discovery.
AGE GROUP: | Children |
EVENT TYPE: | Summer Reading | Music |
TAGS: | songs | song | singing | music | kids | audience participation |
Main Library
In 1897, local public servant and storekeeper George Harsh willed $10,000 for “public library purposes.” The funds purchased nearly 10,000 volumes for Massillon’s first public library. Also in 1897, J.W. McClymonds announced his gift of an endowment of $20,000 for a library. The Russell sisters, Flora and Annie, who married the McClymonds brothers, donated the Nahum S. Russell home, located on Prospect Street (now Fourth Street NE), in memory of their parents. The McClymonds Public Library opened on January 1, 1899, and was funded by private subscriptions and an annual disbursement of city funds. In 1922, the McClymonds Public Library became the Massillon City School District Library and was now funded by tax revenue.
In 1930, Annie Steese Baldwin willed her home “as the site for a new public library.” Built around 1835, the brick home overlooking downtown Massillon from Hill Street (now Second Street NE) was first the residence of the city’s founder, James Duncan.
The current Massillon Public Library (Main Location), located at the corner of Lincoln Way East and Second Street NE, opened in 1937. Designed by Albrecht & Wilhelm and funded in part by a Works Progress Administration grant, the Duncan/Baldwin home was connected by a Jeffersonian portico and rotunda to a west wing Reading Room and Children’s Room. The Massillon Museum was also housed at this location until 1996 when it moved to its present location at 121 Lincoln Way East.