Date: Friday, September 5, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Books & Appalachian History
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be creating folded paper books.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston (Author), Susan Condie Lamb (Illustrator)
- That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Date: Friday, August 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Country Music History
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be creating a paint stick guitar.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country Music by Bret Bertholf
Date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Moon Bound Girl
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be creating moon craft plates.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Moon Bound Girl: Melody’s Music by Leigh Ann Agee
- Moon Bound Girl: Harmony’s World Tour by Leigh Ann Agee
Date: Friday, June 6, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Women Musicians & Songwriters
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be swifty friendship bracelets.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
- Little People, Big Dreams: Ella Fitzgerald by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Bàrbara Alca (Illustrator)
- Little People, Big Dreams: Taylor Swift by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Borghild Fallberg (Illustrator)
