Thursday was the day to visit the Rowland library and get creatively stringy with them. Today we had a new addition to help us, China Troy who is a summer intern with the Robeson County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, travelled with our 4-H department to help out with this creative endeavor. A few youth joined us for the weekly story time but something magical also happened. Shortly after story time started a group of developmentally disadvantage adults walked to the library to join us. A few of the adults who came remembered doing this as children and it just took a few pulls of the string in different directions to remind them of all the fun they used to have. Before you knew it everyone had mastered the techniques we were teaching and the adults showed us some new stuff. However after years of making the designs they found it difficult to break it down into steps to teach so we all worked together to make it happen and the next thing you know there were more than a dozen people doing "Jacob's Ladder" in string and a whole lot of smiles to go with it. Stay tuned as our string tour will continue next week with the Maxton, Red Springs and St. Paul's libraries still to come.
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