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Archive: July 2013 (11 Posts)

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Library in the News: June Edition

Posted by: Erin Allen

Leading the news headlines in June was the announcement that Natasha Trethewey would return for a second term as U.S. poet laureate. “Natasha Trethewey likened her most recent poetry reading at the Library of Congress to a church revival in the South, complete with tents and believers making enough noise to make nonbelievers come in …

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

A Presidential Fourth

Posted by: Erin Allen

Recently my dad gave me an interesting little tidbit concerning further research he has done on our family tree that is particularly auspicious for the occasion of today’s Fourth of July celebrations. (As you may recall from this previous blog post, my father has found a new hobby in ancestry research.) As it turns out, …