🍽️❤️ For the Love of Food! ❤️🍽️

Calling all food lovers! Join us at the Main Library for our monthly cooking demonstration and treat your taste buds to an evening of flavor, fun, and inspiration. 😋✨

📍 Main Library
📅 Monday, January 5
⏰ 5:30 ...PM – 7:30 PM

👩‍🍳 This month’s featured chef: Amy Pillarisetti of Lal Mirch Cooking School
🌶️ Enjoy a delightful culinary journey as you:
🥘 Learn new recipes
🍴 Sample delicious dishes
📚 Explore cookbooks from our library collection

🎉 This FREE event is open to all—come hungry and leave inspired!

⚠️ Registration required (space is limited):
👉 https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=254197

📞 For more information contact 318-445-2411

Good food, great company, and plenty of inspiration—join us For the Love of Food! 🍲💫

#ForTheLoveOfFood #MainLibrary #CookingDemo #LocalChef #FoodieFun #LibraryPrograms #CulinaryInspiration 🍽️✨

📚✨ The Truth Behind J. B. Lafargue’s Life ✨📚

Join us at the Martin Luther King Jr. Branch for a powerful and enlightening afternoon as we uncover hidden history and celebrate a legacy that helped shape Black education in America.

📍King Branch
📅Saturday, ...January 10
⏰2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

📖 Featuring a book talk & signing of Michael Wynne’s latest biography:
All towards the elevation of the negro race in America…": Jean Baptiste Lafargue, The "Negro" Who Re-Invented Black Education For America".

🎤 Special Guests:
✨ Michael Wynne — collector, historian, speaker, and preservationist
✨ Josette Abugov — great-great niece of J. B. Lafargue, environment reporter at The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com, and fiction writer

Discover long-hidden truths about the life, history, and heritage of Jean Baptiste Lafargue, and engage in meaningful conversation that honors his lasting impact. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Come learn, reflect, and be inspired by history that deserves to be known. 🌟

#HiddenHistory #JBLaFargue #BookTalkAndSigning #BlackHistory #KingBranch #LibraryPrograms #LocalHistory #PreservingOurPast 📖✨

🎬🍿 Calling all movie lovers!
Want to watch the latest movies without paying theater prices? Stop by any RPL location and grab a DVD list to see what’s new!
#MovieNight #LibraryDVDs #RPL #FreeMovies #MovieLovers

🎆✨ Happy New Year from our RPL family to yours! ✨🎆

Thank you for making this past year so special—we’re so grateful to have shared it with our amazing community! 💙📚 We can’t wait to turn the page and make many more memories with you in the year ahead. 🎇

...📌 New Year’s Reminder:
All Rapides Library branches are closed and will reopen on Friday, January 2. We’ll be ready to welcome you back! 😊

💻 In the meantime, enjoy our digital resources anytime at www.rpl.org

Here’s to a bright, happy, and book-filled New Year! 🥂📖✨

#HappyNewYear #RPL #NewYearNewReads #LibraryLove #CheersTo2026 🎉📚

📚👶Big dreams start with little books!

Read 1,000 books before age 5 and help your child build skills for school and life—all while having fun together!

Log your reading on Beanstack and watch the progress grow! 🌱

🔗 https://rpl.beanstack.com/users/sign_in
... #1000BooksBeforeFive #ReadTogether #EarlyLiteracy #RPLReads #LittleReaders