Date: Friday, February 6, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Letters & Love: “The stories stamped with love, tucked into envelopes, and carried by postal workers through snow, rain, and song.”
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybooks, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet.
Books that will be featured at Story Time include:
- The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bon
- Special Delivery by Philip C. Stead
Date: Friday, January 10, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Dolly Parton
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton by Deborah Hopkinson (Author), Monique Dong (Illustrator)
- Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton (Author), Brooke Boynton Hughes (Illustrator)
- I am Dolly Parton (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer (Author), Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)
Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Christmas
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be creating popsicle stick cabins.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant (Author), Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator)
- Mountain Christmas by Marc Harshman (Author), Cecy Rose (Illustrator)
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. EST
Location: The Learning Center, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public
Theme: Cowboys
Join us in the museum’s Learning Center for our monthly Museum Storytime program. Aimed at toddler-age children and their grown-ups, we will gather on the first Friday of each month for a music- or Appalachia-related storybook, a tune or two by WBCM Radio Bristol show host Ella Patrick, and a related activity or coloring sheet. The craft will be creating paper mountains.
Books that will be featured at Storytime include:
- Cowboy Bunnies by Christine Loomis
- The Cowboy ABC by Chris Demarest
- Cowboy Dreams by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
