Celebrating Irving – The City and the Man

On Friday, April 3, visit any Irving Public Library location for the opportunity to win prizes in the Seek and Find Rip Van Winkle Game. This event is for all ages and no registration is required. From 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, the Washington Irving Read-A-Thon will be in the Central Library Auditorium (801 W. Irving Blvd). During this event, volunteers will read aloud from Irving’s works. Refreshments will be served. No registration is required to attend. If you would like to volunteer to be a reader, please contact the Northwest Branch Library at (972) 721-2691 before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31.

For more information about Celebrating Irving events, please call the Irving Heritage Center at (972) 252-3838, or visit the web site http://www.irvingheritage.com/ for a full schedule. All events are free. The program is presented by the City of Irving, the Irving Heritage Society, the Irving Public Library, and the Irving Independent School District and was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas.