Here's an activity to remember for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Pequot Library in Fairfield, anticipating this year's Beijing Olympics, sponsored its own games centered on learning and exercise.

The participants were children in grades two to eight who read about classical Greece and re-enacted scenes from the Odyssey by Homer.

They also saw trained athletes demonstrate events that are still part of the Olympics, such as the discus throw and jumping.

The local games were called the “Greco-Pequot Olympic Festival.” Children’s librarian Susan Ei said the intent was to stimulate children to learn more about ancient Greece and Olympic sport.

The festival even devised its own torch relay, in which children carried an unlit torch around the library grounds.