Porter Family Resource Center

Take a look at all the amazing opportunities at our public library this month!

The applications for tutoring scholarships at Bright Side Learning are now open! Please contact the library for details.

The Johnson County Public Library is now offering assistance in learning how to navigate new devices such as chrome books, tablets, laptops and phones. Please call the public library for details.

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, was a professional boxer, activist and philanthropist. Nicknamed "The Greatest," he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Ali began boxing at age 12. As an amateur boxer, he won six Golden Gloves Tournaments in Kentucky and two National Golden Gloves Tournaments. In 1960, Ali won an Olympic gold medal in boxing, then made his professional boxing debut.

Mary Ellen Britton was a physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington Kentucky. She attended Berea College, the first institution of higher education in Kentucky to admit black students. She was president of the Lexington Woman's Improvement Club and later served as a charter member of the Ladies Orphan Society, which founded the Colored Orphan Industrial Home in Lexington in 1892.

Mary E. Merritt is from Berea, Kentucky. She attended Berea College, receiving credentials to teach. She attended Berea College until 1903 when the Day Law forced segregation of the college. When Berea College added a nursing training program, she returned to school she received a nursing degree. She was the first African American nurse to be licensed in Kentucky. She was awarded a certificate of merit by President Woodrow Wilson for her work in the Red Cross camp during World War I.

Hannah Edelen, Springfield native and public school teacher, is Miss Kentucky 2022. She is a proud graduate of Washington County High School, which is where she met a teacher that played a pivotal role in her life and helped her apply to the Governor's Scholar Program.

Check out our calendar of dress up days and celebrate this week of literacy!

A show where Miss September creatively draws on the imagination of the audience through magic, puppets, and music to construct a wonderful Seuss-like World Of FUN!!!