Photo provided Meridian Kiwanis members Sandy Allman (also a Bartholomew County Public Library Outreach librarian), club President Doug Stender, Jeff Blasdel and John Asel are shown with the sign for the Traveling StoryWalk, currently at the Columbus Visitor’s Center downtown.
The Bartholomew County Public Library is offering a Traveling StoryWalk, completed with financial support from the Columbus Meridian Kiwanis Club, the Indiana Kiwanis District Foundation and Columbus Regional Health’s Healthy Communities.
The installation consists of 14 to 20 story panels, each containing two pages of a popular children’s storybook in a weatherproof display.
The current story “It Began with Lemonade” by Gideon Sterer and Lian Cho, is printed in English and Spanish in the Traveling StoryWalk.
It will be moved to numerous parks, playgrounds, schools and day care sites around the Columbus community, rotating to a new location every two weeks.
So far, the Traveling StoryWalk has visited Children Inc., Bright Beginnings (at McDowell Education Center), Driftside Mobile Home Community, Grammer Park, McCullough’s Run and two locations in Hope.
The Traveling StoryWalk is now at the Visitor’s Center in downtown Columbus.
In addition to the Traveling StoryWalk, the library also offers a Storywalk in Blackwell Park.
Partnering with the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department, the Blackwell Park StoryWalk features the books “Don’t Worry, Little Crab” by Chris Haughton in June and “Marlo by Christopher Browne in July.
The StoryWalk is located along the People Trail near the Pollinator Park in Blackwell Park.
For more information about the library and its storywalk programs, visit https://mybcpl.org/.
