In April of 1789, President-elect George Washington made his way from his home in Virginia to the young country’s then-capital, New York City, for his inauguration on the last day of the month. He made frequent stops along the way to greet his numerous supporters. The most represented of… Continue reading »
The Chapin Library invites you to attend a virtual event with Foy Scalf on April 27 from 3:00-4:30pm EDT. Register to receive the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/7rdy8sBF2t8rh6Zq8 In 1922 Alfred Clark Chapin purchased a small album filled with scraps of ancient Egyptian papyrus… Continue reading »
For Health Days (April 21-22 & May 7) we're inviting you to use the libraries to support your health and well-being. We're encouraging you to PLAY, EXPLORE and CREATE. Did you know that we have board games, lawn games and zine making kits? Continue reading »
Eighty-six years to the day after the storied battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, a similarly symbolical scuffle took place in the streets of Baltimore. A week before, on April 12th, the Civil War had begun with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which saw… Continue reading »
The firm Currier & Ives was among the most popular and influential, not to mention prolific, purveyors of images in 19th-century America. Nathaniel Currier, its founder, learned the then-young trade of lithography in the early years of the 1830s, when he was a teenage apprentice for a Boston shop… Continue reading »
How do you deal with stress and improve your overall health and well-being? Perhaps you go for a jog, listen to a favorite podcast, spend time in nature, or get a good night’s sleep. Schow’s new display focuses on stress relief, health, and wellness and highlights library resources which might… Continue reading »
In this humble etching in the Chapin Library’s art collection, by the Maine-born artist Charles B. Foster, a young boy — the titular Eugéne, one presumes — sits beside a river, fishing. Hastily rendered, the print bears a background that is hardly more than a few scratched lines in… Continue reading »
Thomas Nast was a paragon of political satire in 19th-century America. Cartooning for the popular New York-based magazine Harper’s Weekly from 1864 to 1886, Nast’s penchant for the indelible and the mordant made his images of political and cultural critique among the most influential of America’s postbellum decades. Indeed, it… Continue reading »
Join librarians for a discussion of Lizard People in the Library an essay by Barbara Fister published in the Project Information Literacy Provocation Series. March 24, 4PM (EDT). RSVP to receive the Zoom link. Continue reading »
During America’s Gilded Age, the advent of a new managerial class quickly begot that class’s rapacious interest in sports and sporting. Baseball, basketball, tennis, and golf. Bike rides, carriage rides, and eventually car rides. Anything outdoors and active, spectatorial or slightly thrilling, came to serve as leisure for this… Continue reading »
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