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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Hagley Library will be closed on November 25th and 26th ...
Friday, August 20, 2021
The child is right, let's all have some chips ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Today's #TradeCardTuesday features the front side of a ca. 1881 advertising card ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021
It's a *little* late to arrange for a Radiogram (a portmanteau of radio telegram), but a telephone call would be nice ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Lettuce celebrate! June 17 is Eat Your Vegetables Day ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
According to some accounts, Benjamin Franklin conducted his now famous, possibly apocryphal, electrical experiment with a kite in a lightning storm on this date, June 15, in 1752.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
We're taking flight this #TravelTuesday and brushing up on our airline etiquette after a long year on the ground ...
Monday, May 24, 2021
While I have been considering my Adam's Apple lately ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
As anyone who knows me can tell you this #TechTuesday ...
Monday, March 29, 2021
"What do you want to do for lunch today?""Oh, I dunno. Something...
Friday, March 26, 2021
It's iconic and ionic ...ranging from literature on salt...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Today's #TradeCardTuesday is quite the sticky situation. This...
Friday, February 5, 2021
New desserts, pea soup, and noodle dishes ... we're hungry...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Today's #TradeCardTuesday brings us this ca. 1880? advertisement...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
The bald eagle became America's national symbol on June 20,...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like this year...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Long-distance vacations are still on hold, but we'll always have...
Friday, October 23, 2020
We're staying tidy and offering no admittance to dirtiness...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020