# Event Details - **Event Name**: Roots To Blossom: Intergenerational Family Archive Project - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 21 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 21 Jan, 2026 at 07:45 pm - **Event Description**: Gather your family archive of photos, letters and mementos for a discussion and hands-on workshop about digitizing your families legacy.About this EventTimelines and characters in book The Seed Keeper are tied together in the conclusion of the novel. Interwoven stories reflect on intergenerational lived experience and the role that the past plays in the present and future. Gather your family archives of photos, letters and mementos for an intergenerational discussion about our connections with seeds, planting, and gardens. Enter the African American Research Library and Cultural Center's (AARLCC) archive offices and join Broward County Library staff Erin Purdy to digitize your family history and identify our community bonds through nature, and leave a legacy through your own digital archive. Attendees will receive a short tour of the archives at AARLCC.Erin Purdy is the Archivist Supervisor for the Broward County Library Special Collections. She established the BCL Digital Memory Lab in 2018 and has worked in museums and archives since 2008.One Book One Broward 2026Start the New Year READING with Broward County Libraries annual initiative One Book One Broward (OBOB). Join all who live, learn, work and play in Broward County from January 1 to February 28, 2026 to build deeper connections through a single book community read. This year’s theme Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection will be guided by the matrilinear storytelling in the novel “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson and the youth companion book “The First Blade of Sweetgrass” by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey. From Sawgrass to Seagrass, residents and visitors will participate in beach side, board walk, and trail head book discussions, presentations, programs, workshops and a festival kick-off at ArtLit on January 10. This initiative will provide human connection, cultural heritage preservation, and diverse perspectives that enable deeper understanding of our community while celebrating reading in South-Florida’s great outdoors.One Book One Broward is supported by the Broward Public Library Foundation. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/fort-lauderdale/roots-to-blossom-intergenerational-family-archive-project/100001968809100017 - **Event Categories**: workshops, festivals, trips-adventures, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Froots-to-blossom-intergenerational-family-archive-project-tickets-1968809100017 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Fort Lauderdale - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: African-American Research Library and Cultural Center - **lat**: 26.1284278 - **long**: -80.17748019999999 - **full address**: African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: South Florida Book Festival (https://allevents.in/org/south-florida-book-festival/21791011) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/e6311751e2e5aca4e7ade3779af7348ef97da9dc99216775f78e99d22fb8b379-rimg-w830-h872-dc484847-gmir.jpg?v=1763622721 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/2ed2e903375ec8cbbcb37f562ff96eae4f51c027907c4bba45052c487af1fd08-rimg-w400-h400-dc484846-gmir.jpg?v=1763622721 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 21 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** South Florida Book Festival - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops, festivals, trips-adventures, storytelling - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Roots To Blossom: Intergenerational Family Archive Project ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Roots To Blossom: Intergenerational Family Archive Project", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/e6311751e2e5aca4e7ade3779af7348ef97da9dc99216775f78e99d22fb8b379-rimg-w830-h872-dc484847-gmir.jpg?v=1763622721", "startDate": "2026-01-21", "endDate": "2026-01-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/fort-lauderdale/roots-to-blossom-intergenerational-family-archive-project/100001968809100017", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "African-American Research Library and Cultural Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2650 Sistrunk Boulevard", "postalCode": "33311", "addressLocality": "Fort Lauderdale", "addressRegion": "FL", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "26.1284278", "longitude": "-80.17748019999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Gather your family archive of photos, letters and mementos for a discussion and hands-on workshop about digitizing your families legacy.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-21", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/fort-lauderdale/roots-to-blossom-intergenerational-family-archive-project/100001968809100017" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/fort-lauderdale/roots-to-blossom-intergenerational-family-archive-project/100001968809100017", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "South Florida Book Festival", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/south-florida-book-festival/21791011" } ] } ] ```