Latest in Adopt-A-Box series honors Mother Goose
Smiling faces attended the recent dedication of the latest downtown utility box decoratively painted as part of the ongoing Main Street Columbus Adopt-A-Box project.
‘Mother Goose’ brings Storytime to Facebook during quarantine
Since March, Americans everywhere have struggled with the restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, some with grace, others with grudging compliance, some even with defiance.
Mother Goose endowment campaign raises $101K
In April 2013, Friends of the Library for the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library kicked off an endowment campaign to support the library’s children’s programs.
A grand gala is set to honor Mother Goose
A climactic event capping off The Year of the Goose is set for Saturday, Jan. 7 at Trotter Convention Center in downtown Columbus.
Photo: A Goose and her goslings
Local fans of Mother Goose give her a big hug during the Mother Goose Picnic held at the Lee Home Friday.
Celebrate Mother Goose at Friday’s picnic
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Edwina Williams’ role as Mother Goose with the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.
Artists asked to help celebrate ‘Year of the Goose’
In honor of Mother Goose’s 30th year at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, the Friends of the Library has declared 2016 to be the “Year of the Goose” in tribute to Edwina Williams and her embodiment of the beloved character from children’s literature.
‘Year of the Goose’ to celebrate a 30th anniversary for ‘Mother Goose’
This year will mark the 30th anniversary of Edwina Williams’ embodiment of the beloved character Mother Goose with the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.
Kids spend summer playing outside, reading at Sim Scott Park Community Center
“Kids these days.”
It’s a familiar refrain from adults that children today spend too much time playing video games or connected to tablets and iPhones and not enough time reading, playing board games or exercising.
Youngsters can add their ‘two cents’ to Mother Goose Endowment
The Mother Goose Endowment for Literacy and Advancement at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will soon benefit from the generosity of the community’s youngest citizens.
It’s ‘onward and upward’ for the Mother Goose Endowment fund
Edwina Williams sat down at the piano in the antebellum home Errolton the evening of April 1 to entertain, she thought, for a surprise birthday party. The surprise, as it turns out, was on her.
Our view: In praise of Mother Goose …
Monday night, the Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library announced their decision to name their endowment fund to enhance the library’s childhood reading program for Edwina Williams, who is far better known as Mother Goose.
This had to be the easiest choice in the whole history of choosing.
Library reveals ‘Mother Goose’ endowment drive
For a half-second Monday night, Edwina Williams was speechless. Known by everyone in Columbus as “Mother Goose,” she is usually found in costume (with her goose by her side), reading to children, or singing, playing the piano or performing as one of her other incarnations — Miz Claus or, most recently, Mrs. Easter Bunny.