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Archive: December 2025 (4 Posts)

Cover of a Christmas card with busy people, a rushing car, and speeding streamlined train at the bottom foreground, silhouetted skyscrapers with a setting sun beyond in the background, and a passenger plane flying overhead.

Dreaming of a Slow Christmas

Posted by: Josh Levy

Sometime in the mid-1930s, an aeronautical engineer sent out a particularly un-Christmassy looking Christmas card, one that featured a sleek aircraft soaring above a speeding train and automobile, with an art deco cityscape in the background.

Black and white print showing beavers near trees and a river.

Of Note: George Washington and the Beaver Tail: An Unfinished Tale

Posted by: Julie Miller

A reference librarian reexamines a favorite letter in the George Washington Papers and gathers more information about the writer, territorial judge George Turner, who caused the first U.S. president years of aggravation and distress during a period when the government was struggling to assert federal authority in the  Northwest Territory.