Want to practice your reading on a furry friend? Sign up for a 15-minute time slot to read to our certified therapy dogs. They’d love to listen to anything you want to read, or we’ll have a few books for you to choose here. Ages 5-10.

Project 2-3-1, is an award-winning 75- minute documentary film that begins with Civil War “contrabands” -- 110 freed slaves who were the first African Americans in Elgin -- and continues to the present day.