Elephant Sanctuary visits Lewis Library Summer Reading program

Lewis County Public Library and Archives hosted the Elephant Sanctuary on June 24th for Elephant Watersports. At this event, participants learned what it was like to be an elephant. To practice moving water like elephants, attendees held an Elephant Water Relay where they used leaky buckets to move water along the line to fill each team's container first. The Elephant Trunk Race allowed participants to experience what it is like using a trunk when they had to carry a ping pong ball with long-reach grabbers and weave between trees without dropping the ball, because elephants only have two finge...