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Archive: February 2021 (10 Posts)

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

A Sponge-Headed Cartoon Character and Staying Healthy

Posted by: Danna Bell

This post was written by Peter DeCraene, the 2020-21 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. In elementary school, being assigned to clean the erasers after school was the height of responsibility. I had a teacher who also rotated the job of getting a bucket of water from the janitor’s closet to …