“A woman might as well turn farmer, and undertake the plowing and ditching herself, because she wants a tulip-bed, as undertake the whole field of politics because the part which relates to her needs fresh seeding down.” -- Mary Abilgail Dodge Woman's Worth and Worthlessness Mary Abigail...
Ann Montanaro Staples, director of the Movable Book Society, and Vice Chair of Friends of the Library Board will discuss the history of movable books and how complex paper engineering educates and entertains readers....
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“We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.” -- Margaret Fuller Woman in the Nineteenth Century… Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845 First edition HG1154 O8 1845 From the preface: “A reproduction, modified and expanded,...
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the...
“When the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to make the world, all the letters of the Alphabet were still embryonic, and for two thousand years the Holy One, blessed be He, had contemplated them and toyed with them. When He came to create the world,...
"God forbid that any native country, whose boast is to be free and happy herself, should cease to afford to the sons and daughters of sorrow, fleeing from the wrongs and miseries of European depotism, a hearty welcome and a happy home!" -- Enoch S....
Para mi, manejar un libro viejo y oler sus páginas, es una experiencia única. Hay un olor del tiempo, de la historia, del drama de la acción quizás. Un libro viejo tiene carácter y manejarlo es como entrar en un cápsula del tiempo. No podemos...
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.” -- St. John of Damascus from his Treatise on Images Α'κολουθι'α του~ A'ναγνω'στου, η'γουν τα Συλλειτουργικα' ...