East Baton Rouge Parish Library Happenings – April

13th Annual Community History Festival: The Sportsman’s Life!
Saturday, April 22 at 10 AM – 2 PM| Pride-Chaneyville Branch Library

Come out and join the Pride-Chaneyville Branch in celebrating their 13th Annual Community History Festival, The Sportsman’s Life, on Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The whole family will enjoy a day of FREE country fun, food, games, crafts, and entertainment. Activities will include rodeo roping, a bouncing bull pen, archery, basketball arcade, virtual reality headsets, electronic reel fly fishing, football toss, boxing bags, face painting, balloon animals, storytimes, artesian BBQ and hot sauce cooking demos, and much more!

There will be guest speakers, including an author talk and book signing with famed chef Philippe Parola on his new book Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em! followed by a tasting of delicious invasive game gumbo! You can purchase a copy of his book at http://cantbeatemeatem.us/ and have it signed at the festival.

Various artists and craftsmen will participate, along with local vendors who will have homemade and handcrafted items available for purchase. The Louisiana Lagniappe Dulcimers and the Upbeats will provide music for the event. The ever-popular old-fashioned Cake Walk will be held every hour! We will have everything from local professional athletes meet and greets, oral histories, boy scouts, Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries, LSU’s Renewable and Natural Resources Department, local hunting, fishing, sports, rodeo booths, and more!

Come take a step back in time, revisiting the storied past of the Pride- Chaneyville area. We will be harking back to the old days, celebrating the sportsman’s life throughout our area, and passing down sportsman’s wisdom to the current day. For more information, call 658-1540.

Join the Library on Tuesday, April 4 at 6 p.m. at the River Center Branch for Write Time!, a FREE poetry and general creative writing session for adults ages 18-33. Beginners and seasoned writers will enjoy creating poems and spoken word pieces while connecting with other creatives. This event is hosted by media personality Boo Milton with a live DJ and refreshments. And mark your calendar for next month’s Write Time! session on Tuesday, May 2 at 6 p.m.! Register for any or all of these monthly sessions at ebrpl.com/calendar or by emailing programs@ebrpl.com.

Saturday Science
Saturday, April 22 at 1 p.m.

Teens and adults are invited to the Main Library at Goodwood on Saturday, April 22 at 1 p.m. for Saturday Science, LSU’s free public talk series connecting the community to science and technology. This month, Dr. Juhan Frank will speak on how some stars attract each other, dance, and merge. Many stars, perhaps most, that appear as a single point of light in the sky, are in

fact two or more stars bound together by gravity. Some are so far apart that they age as single stars without ever interacting beyond the gravity that binds them and may die without affecting each other. Others are close enough to exchange mass and change their lives. Some are still closer, so that gravity’s fatal attraction will bring them so close that they end up merging into a single object. What follows depends on the masses of the pair. Sometimes the merger explodes as a supernova, sometimes produces a different type of cataclysm, and sometimes the product survives as a single star of unusual and puzzling properties. These “Interacting Binary Stars” and “Stellar Mergers” teach us a great deal about the evolution of the universe and the origin of the chemical elements.

Brush up on your ACT test-taking skills! Students ages 13 and older can come to the Zachary Branch on Thursday, April 13 at 9:30 a.m. to take a free practice test. The practice test is organized to run like the real ACT test to give teens experience in the type of questions to expect as well as the testing environment. Please bring sharpened number 2 pencils, a permitted calculator, and a snack for the break. Space is limited. Registration is required. To register, call 658-1870.