Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library

Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library Event Calendar

Date:

2/27/2021

Time:

11:00 AM -

Title:

Art of Storytelling: Featuring Kevin Noble Maillard (Mekusukey Band of the Seminole Nation)

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Description:

Native American storytellers use the oral tradition to teach life lessons, tribal histories, and the nuance of languages. Such stories are an essential tool in passing knowledge from one generation to the next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwkAZtK-P4&feature=youtu.be

Kevin Noble Maillard (Mekusukey Band of the Seminole Nation) is originally from Oklahoma. A professor and journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, Maillard will read his award-winning debut book for youth, Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, and will demonstrate his cooking skills by making some fry bread.

This program is pre-recorded and available on demand in February, and is made possible by the generous support of Con Edison.

Images credit: FRY BREAD by Kevin Noble Maillard; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. Text copyright © 2019 by Kevin Noble Maillard. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Juana Martinez-Neal. Reprinted by permission of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. All Rights Reserved.

Headshot: Photo by Chris Owyoung