Today's Feature
Upcoming Events for Perkins Centennial.

Marlin Perkins Centennial Week which honors the 100th anniversary of Perkins birth in 1905 began with strong start this week and many events are still to come.

Today’s featured events include the "Pre-school Zoo Animal Storyhour" in the Carthage Public Library Children’s Department at 10 a.m. The event is free to the public and will feature excerpts from Carol Morse Perkins’ story "Little Pierre," which is based on Marlin’s work at the St. Louis Zoo.

A free presentation will then be given at 2:00 p.m. in the Powers Museum. The presentation "Growing Up in Carthage: Marlin Perkins 1905-1923" is taken from the autobiography of Perkins with additional selections from letters, diaries and scrapbooks from the Powers Museum Archives and the Marlin Perkins Papers housed at the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection in the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Thursday’s events include the "Discovering Marlin’s Neighborhood" walking tour. The walking tour begins at Central Park across from the library entrance at 10 a.m. and will span the neighborhood of 700-900 Main Street which includes the school and home of the young Perkins. This event will be repeated on Friday at 1:30.

Also on Thursday the "Traveling the Highways 1905-1924" presentation will be held at Powers Museum starting at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday’s events start at 9:00 a.m. with a Biography Trail and Goodie Hunt in the Public Library gardens and surrounding neighborhood. Parental assistance will be necessary for younger children. The events continue until 3:00 p.m. at the Central Park bandstand where featured speaker Dianne Moran of Richwoods, MO will speak on "My Memories of Marlin."

The Marlin Perkins Centennial Week celebration is sponsored by the Carthage Public Library, 612 S. Garrison and the Powers Museum, 1617 W. Oak St. Schedule and details of events are on-line at www.powersmuseum.com. For more information call 417-358-2667.

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