Children listened to a story and built a craft in honor of Black History Month on Feb. 20 at Baldwin Public Library.
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Alisa Reid, 9, showed off her model plane that she made during the event after learning about James Banning, the first African-American pilot to fly across the country in 1932.
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Brothers, Frederick Siena Horowitz, left, and Giovanni, 7, glued their planes together during the craft portion of the event.
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Jason VonButtgereit looked on as Maya Gilbert, 7, and Jared Lucas, 5, worked on their map activity.
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VonButtgereit, a children’s librarian, read “The Hallelajah Flight” by Phil Bildner to kids in attendance.
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In celebration of Black History Month, which runs all of February, children at Baldwin Public Library learned about James Banning, the first African-American pilot to fly across the United States.
Children's Librarian Jason VonButtgereit read “The Hallelujah Flight” by Phil Bildner aloud to the group of children on Feb. 20. From there, kids made a clothespin airplane to resemble the aircraft that Banning used during his history-making journey in 1932 when he flew from Los Angeles to Long Island.