All LA County Library locations will be closed on Sunday, April 5. Our Digital Library is open 24/7.
Build your own catapult and take on your friends to see who has the best aim, the best distance, and who can take down the castle's defenses! Is that a dragon come to rain fire? Come and break the castles defenses! For teens and tweens, 12 - 18.
Parents: Please be aware that refreshments will be served. A list of ingredients will be available.
Part of Summer Discovery Program.
Image courtesy of George Retseck at Scientific American.
AGE GROUP: | Teens |
EVENT TYPE: | STEAM | Arts, Crafts, & Hobbies |
TAGS: | Summer Discovery Program | National Summer Learning Week |
La Crescenta Library first opened in November 1914 as the 78th branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library. The collection was first housed in a local church building, and subsequently moved several times; once into a school house, later into a local store front, and into the Sears building in 1926.
By 1932, the library had settled into a building at 3930 La Crescenta Avenue. As the population of La Crescenta grew, so to did the demand for a new building. The library found an appropriate site on the corner of Foothill Blvd and La Crescenta Ave, and opened in March of 1963.
By 2005 the population had once again outgrown the library's space, so the La Crescenta community sought a new building. Thanks to funding from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, and Congressman David Dreier, the County of Los Angeles was able to construct an updated facility in its current location.
The building broke ground in 2007, and reopened in January 2010. The new 14,000 square foot facility, built in the style of the arts and crafts movement, features modern technology and meeting space open to the public.
