Patten Free Library celebrating Black history the local way A new presentation to be updated daily throughout February on the library's website will feature special Black history projects produced by local residents. Share BATH — Visitors to a new virtual Black history project next month on Patten Free Library’s website will see information ranging from a children’s book about a former slave to a story about medical experiments so objectionably racist they drew an apology from then-President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Roberta Jordan, left, Patten Free Library’s outreach and instruction librarian, and Katy Dodge, head of children’s services, with the book “Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness.” Dodge will give a reading of the children’s book about a 19th-century former slave who worked with a sick racehorse.