"Evening snow starts to fall outside. It starts as large fluffy flakes. Day after day snow falls, week after week. Will it never end? The sidewalks become like narrow alleyways. For every snowflake there is regret: for words never said, for trips made and not...

27 December, 2021 /

"Casserole cooking is easy as pie. A party is born in the wink of an eye." Holiday Party Casseroles Edna Beilenson Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956 TX693 B45 1956 At the age of twenty-two, Peter Beilenson set up a small press in the basement of his father’s home...

20 December, 2021 /

The Rare Books Department invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, Historyes of English. Das Buch von Lindisfarne Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 2002 ND3359 L5 L56 2002 Early manuscripts from western Europe can help us trace the histories of the English language. From these illuminated pages, we can...

13 December, 2021 /

St. Nicholas Magazine Mary Mapes Dodge, editor New York: Scribner, 1873-1943 AP201 S3 S256 For many European countries, December 6 marks the feast day of St. Nicholas — the fourth century bishop of Myra, and the patron saint of Russia and Greece, as well as numerous cities, sailors and...

06 December, 2021 /

1970 - Pumpkin patch: Tom & Anne - alternating stem stitch, variation on couching, double running or holbein stitch. Winter Count Anne Greenwood Portland, Oregon: A. Greenwood, 2008 N7433.4 G744 W56 2008 Among several tribes on the Northern Plains the passage of time was marked by noting a single memorable...

29 November, 2021 /

"Because of her, we think and create. Because of her, we make songs. Because of her, the designs appear as we weave. Because of her, we tell stories and laugh. We believe in old values and new ideas. Hayoołkáałgo Sisnaajiní bik'ehgo hózhónígo naashá" — Luci Tapahonso, "This Is How They Were...

08 November, 2021 /