Prime Time Family Reading Program

Prime Time, designed for children six to ten and their families, promotes literacy for all Kentuckians.

Storyteller Mary Hamilton reads to participants at Breckenridge Co. Public Library.


Fleming County librarians register families for Prime Time.






Families discover the story together at Prime Time.


Click here to go to photo gallery for more pictures of Prime Time programs.

By this time next year, scores of young Kentuckians will be reading better and enjoying it more. That's because the Kentucky Humanities Council, in cooperation with the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, is bringing an award-winning family literacy program to eight Kentucky counties.

Prime Time Family Reading Time is supported by We The People grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, the Scripps Howard Foundation, and by contributions from donors like you.

Applications are currently being accepted from libraries to host a Prime Time Family Reading Time Program during the 2008 calendar year. Click here for application form.

For more information, please contact Kathleen Pool at the Kentucky Humanities Council at 859-257-5932. E-mail: kathleen.pool@uky.edu

Louisiana Endowment for Humanities Prime Time web site

Click here to download the Prime Time Family Reading Time brochure.

Click here to download the 'Finding the Humanities in Children's Literature' PDF

Prime Time Family Reading Time Schedule

*Marion County Public Library
1/17/08 – 2/21/08 6:00 p.m.
Lisa Wyman
201 E. Main St.
Lebanon, KY 40033
270-692-4698
lisamcpl@gmail.com
Scholar: Joe DeSpain
Storyteller: Anne Foster
*Bowling Green Public Library
1/22/08 – 2/26/08 6:00 p.m.
Lisa Rice
1225 State St.
Bowling Green, KY 42101
270-781-4882
lisar@bgpl.org
Scholar: Toni McIntyre
Storyteller: Roxanne Spencer
*Gallatin County Public Library
1/28/08 – 3/10/08 skip President’s Day
Shirley French
209 W. Market St./PO Box 848
Warsaw, KY 41095
859-567-2786
shirleyfrench@gallatincountylibrary.org
Scholar: Jacqueline Mylor
Storyteller: John “Spike” Wright
Family Resource Cen Coord.: Pat Hendron
*Lexington Public Library
2/7/08 – 3/13/08
Northside Branch
1737 Russell Cave Rd., Lexington 40505
Johnna Waldon
859-231-5590
Russell Cave Rd.
Scholar: Chris Begley
Storyteller: Wendy O’Conner
Translator: Carolina Fernandez
*Scott County Public Library
2/14/08 – 3/20/08
Earlene H. Arnett/Melissa Gibson
104 S. Bradford Ln.
Georgetown, KY 40324
502-863-3566
Earlene@scottpublib.org
Scholar: Gwynn Henderson
Storyteller: Mary Lou White
Mason County Public Library
3/24/08 – 4/28/08 5:30 p.m.
Valerie Zempter
218 E. Third St.
Maysville, KY 41056
606-564-3286
Masoncolibrary@bellsouth.net
Scholar: Isaac Larison
Storyteller: Carol Campbell
Mary Wood Weldon Library
3/29/08 – 5/3/08
Martha Nell Thomas
107 W. College St.
Glasgow, KY 42141
606-436-2475
jthomas@scrtc.com
Scholar: Laura Houchens
Storyteller: Kathy Milby
*Boone County Public Library
3/31/08 – 5/5/08
Kelly Ellert
8899 US 42
Union, KY 41091
859-384-5550
kellert@bcpl.org
Scholar: David Bishop
Storyteller: Denise Vallandingham
*Fleming County Public Library
4/1/08 - 5/6/08
Mary Rushing
202 Bypass Blvd.
Flemingsburg, KY 41041
606-845-7851
606-845-7045
m.rushing@windstream.net
Scholar: Janie-Rice Brother
Storyteller: Mary Hamilton
Martin County Public Library
Week of 4/13/08 – 5/18/08
Carolyn Ward
PO Box 1318
Inez, KY 41224
606-298-7766
cward@martincolibrary.com
Scholar: Kitty Hazler
Storyteller: Georgia Anderson
*Clay County Public Library
Begin week of 4/24/08 – 5/29/08 6:00pm
Donna Fee-Gillahan
211 Bridge St.
Manchester, KY 40962
606-598-2617
Bookstacker2@yahoo.com
Scholar: Jamie Johnson
Storyteller: Anne Shelby
Henry Clay High School
6/14/08 - 7/21/08
Lexington, KY
Scholar: Aminata Cairo
Storyteller: Mary Hamilton
Translators: Carolina Fernandez, Omer Almarjaneed, Brigitte Ndulwimana
Middlesboro-Bell Co Pub Library
8/21/08 – 9/25/08
Cindy McGeorge
126 S. 20th St.
Middlesboro, KY 40965
606-248-4812
Mcgeorge29@hotmail.com
Scholar: Robert Cox
Storyteller: Laura Studdard
Cynthiana-Harrison Co Pub Library
8/21/08 – 9/25/08 6:00 p.m.
Jenny Hyatt
104 N. Main St.
Cynthiana, KY 41031
859-234-4881
jhyatt@cynthianalibrary.org
Scholar: Chris Begley
Storyteller: Wendy O’Connor
Grant County Public Library
9/29/08 - 11/3/08
Cheryl Clemons
201 Barnes Rd.
Williamstown, KY 41097
859-824-2080
c.clemons@fuse.net
Scholar: Carleen Ficker
Storyteller: Mike Spratt
Perry County Public Library
10/1/08 – 11/5/08 Wednesdays
Jennifer Young
PO Box 928
Hazard, KY 41702-0928
606-436-2475
jennifery@setel.com
Scholar: Randy Moon
Storyteller: Nancy Allen
*Green County Public Library
10/3/08 – 11/14/08
Shelley Pruitt
112 W. Court St.
Greensburg, KY 42743
270-932-7081
shelleypruitt@alltel.net
Scholar: Joe DeSpain
Storyteller: Kathy Milby
Childcare Provider: Laura Johnson
*Paul Sawyier Public Library
10/7/08 - 11/11/08
Erinn Haynes
319 Wapping St.
Frankfort, KY 40601
502-352-2665
Erinn@pspl.org
Scholar: Becky Nelson
Storyteller: Mary Hamilton
Lexington Public Library
10/7/08 - 11/18/08
(skip 11/4 - election day)
Eagle Creek Branch
101 N. Eagle Creek Dr.
Lexington 40509
Elliot Appelbaum
859-231-5560
Scholar: Aminata Cairo
Storyteller: Cheri Parrish
Translator: Carolina Fernandez
*Bracken County Public Library
10/13/08 – 11/17/08 6:00 p.m.
Valerie Clark
310 W. Main St.
Brooksville, KY 41004
606-735-3620
Valerie@brackenlibrary.com
Scholar: Isaac Larison
Storyteller: Martha McLeod
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