Black Folktales with John Steven Crowley

Black Folktales with John Steven Crowley
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Main Library – 111 Library St NE

Join us for an afternoon of folktales with award-winning storyteller and actor John Steven Crowley. Mr. Crowley will share tales from the African American tradition with stories, songs, and drums. Each family that attends will go home with a copy of the book The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton.

Special thanks to the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation and the Wege Foundation for their support of this program.