Christmas stories in the park

Volunteer Beverly Parsons – bedecked as a Christmas tree – reads "Christmas for a Kitten" to granddaughters Kinsley (left) and Kallie Jo Killion during Thursday afternoon's "Christmas Stories in the Park," the first of four holiday readings sponsored by the Rusk Public Library at 4 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays through Dec. 21 at Jim Hogg City Park.