WHAT: Children’s Reading Festival, Santa and Holiday Cards for Troops
WHEN: Dec. 13 from 12 to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Henry A. Wallace Center, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park
DETAILS: The ninth annual Children’s Reading Festival, presented by the Roosevelt Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District, will take place in the center. Children’s book authors will read from and sign copies of their books. Featured books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store in the Wallace Center. At 4 p.m., families can listen, laugh and learn with Hudson Valley’s own traveling troubadour, Bindlestick Bill. In addition, there will be free photos with Santa from 1 to 3 p.m., and children can make holiday cards for sailors on the USS Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt beginning at 12 p.m. Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon.
CONTACT: (845) 486-7745.
