Family Adventures

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2025 Family Reading Adventures Programs

 

History Kids Reading Adventures Club

for kids who LOVE to read, parents who WANT their kids to love to read, and for budding history buffs everywhere!

Our 2025 theme is: National Parks and the Arts

Join a park educator to read a new children's book and then participate in an indoor or outdoor adventures. Recommended for families with children ages 4-9

When?
Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. January 4 through February 22, 2025
Where?
Film Theater, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

Schedule:

January 4: Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

January 11: Our Flag Was Still There by Jessie Hartland

January 18: B is for Battlecry by Patricia Bauer

January 25: Yellowstone Moran by Lita Judge

February 1: Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser

February 8: Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life in Nature by Cindy Jenson-Elliott

February 15: Maya Lin By Jeanne Walker Harvey

February 22: The Bourbon Street Band is Back By Ed Shankman

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Time Travelers' Reading Adventure Club

Our 2025 selection is:
Abe Lincoln at Last
by Mary Pope Osborne
and
Alfred Waud Goes To Gettysburg
by Ellen T. Crenshaw

Program is free of charge. Recommended for families with children ages 9-14.

When?
Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m., March 1 through March 22.
Where?
Ford Education Room, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

No Reservations Needed for History Kids Reading Adventures or for Time Travelers' Reading Club!
Just Show Up Ready to Read and to Learn!

*Please Note: All programs and procedures subject to change.