Father's Day is June 18 this year! If you'd like to share stories about fathers, this is the place for you.
Father's Day
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World Oceans Day 2023
This June 8th is World Oceans Day! Established to advocate for the protection of the world’s oceans and sustainable resource management and development, Canada first proposed the concept of a World Ocean Day at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Formally adopted worldwide in 2003 by the United Nations (UN), this holiday is…
June is PRIDE Month
June is Pride Month with celebrations promoting awareness, communication, and respect within and surrounding the LGBTQIA+ community. Origins at the Stonewall Inn Pride month began after the Stonewall Uprising. The Stonewall Uprising was a series of gay liberation events over the course of six days beginning on June 28, 1969. These events began shortly after…
Selections from Marilyn Monroe’s bookshelf
Born 97 years ago today, Marilyn Monroe remains a twentieth-century icon, representing cinematic glamor and sadly often remembered more for her untimely death than her acting talent or her contributions to the Civil Rights movement. Another thing few realize about Monroe is that she was a passionate book lover with a personal library containing over…
001.9
If you have browsed nonfiction, you may have noticed that at the end of general knowledge (Dewey Decimal 001) and right before books about books (002) there are some titles on unusual topics. You might encounter Atlantis, Area 51, bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other subjects worthy of The X-Files under the call number…
Kindness, Friendship, Unity
This year's summer reading theme is "All Together Now," embracing kindness, friendship, and unity! We have plenty of books on these topics!
Kindergarten
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Kon Tiki
In the 1940s, Thor Heyerdahl from Norway theorised that the peoples of Polynesia were settled by the peoples of Peru rather than people of Asiatic descendent as was commonly accepted at that time. In the 1940's this idea was considered to be completely ludicrous and the academia and anthropological world both in Europe and later…
International Hummus Day
International Hummus Day was founded in 2012 and is celebrated on May 13th every year! But what makes this such an iconic cross-cultural food? History of Hummus: No one can say for certain where hummus was originally invented although according to most historians the earliest mention of the spread comes from 13th century Egypt. This…
Books on Japanese gardens and gardening
Books on Japanese gardens and gardening at St. Tammany Parish Library.
George Lucas’s inspirations for Star Wars
It's often said that, "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." In the case of George Lucas and his collaborators on the long-running Star Wars series, it might be added that, "Great artists steal and synthesize." Lucas famously combined ideas from a variety of sources to craft his galaxy far, far away, taking everything from world…
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