The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/library/directors-corner/page/6/)
Dictionaries have been around a long time, perhaps beginning on cuneiform tablets around 2300 BCE (or BC if you prefer) in the area of modern-day Syria. In 1604, the first English alphabetical dictionary was published.
The Kent Memorial Library is unique. It is the only free-standing public building designed by Warren Platner.
I recently read Sam Fuller’s account of how the library on 50 North Main Street came to be. The building’s inception was awash in what Sam called “blood and tears.”
I have toted home a few books on spies for my husband which got me thinking. Many writers were spies – but were there librarian spies?
April is a busy literary month. It is National Poetry Month. It also contains National Library Week, National Bookmobile Day, Poem in Your Pocket Day, and a whole host of other literary holidays few people will celebrate.
Do you know that March 25 was once the start of the New Year? Julius Caesar abolished the complicated Roman calendar and created a new one.
Love is all around me since my daughter got engaged on New Year’s Eve. We have visited wedding venues, tasted food, kissed and sighed over happily ever after.
This bear is Paddington, whose story started on Christmas Eve in 1956, at Selfridges in London. Michael Bond, searching for a present, pitied a forlorn toy bear sitting alone on a shelf and took it home.
Politics and food go hand-in-hand. Do you remember Clinton’s fast food hamburgers, Bush’s distaste for broccoli, and cookie recipes from candidates’ wives?
Some libraries have shelves of mysteries, and some are mysteriously haunted. In Connecticut, the most haunted library is in Deep River.