A picture says a thousand words or so the old adage goes. Photographs, postcards, and other pictures offer a fascinating window into the past and serve as a rich source for investigating how our physical and cultural environments have changed over time. The following books all feature local pictures from the late 19th and early…
Hobbit Day 2023: The Silmarillion
The Two Trees of Valinor, as depicted on Amazon Studios' Rings of Power Once upon a time, J. R. R. Tolkien simply wanted to write stories. Over time, these stories seemed to fit in their own world, the kind of fantasy one told of the elder days when the world was young and the…
The Sibyl of the Rhine
September 17th marks the anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German author and abbess. Born to a noble family in Bermersheim, Germany in 1098, she was sent at a young age to live with the nuns at the monastery of Disibodenberg, where she learned how to read and write. She…
Sourdough September
2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the annual month-long baking celebration of “Sourdough September”. This was created as a collaboration between Sustain, a group of organizations and communities in the UK working together for sustainable food, farming and fishing practices and The Real Bread Campaign, whose focus is making bread better for our communities, better…
Explore Your Creativity with Creativebug!
St. Tammany Parish Library is excited to now offer Creativebug to our patrons! It provides high-quality, on-trend arts and crafts instructional videos.
Spotlight: “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame saved Notre Dame cathedral during a crucial period in French history. This is no exaggeration. In the early nineteenth-century, the historical and cultural value of surviving medieval architecture was ignored by the general populace. Efforts to update the Notre Dame cathedral, which included replacing its stained…
Investigating Louisiana Architecture
This month we highlight two series of books investigating Louisiana architecture.
Holiday Spotlight: Oktoberfest
Holiday Spotlight: Oktoberfest It's a bit early, but one of our favorite cultural celebrations is coming up: Oktoberfest! Oktoberfest is the largest cultural heritage festival celebrated in the world. It takes place over the (roughly) two weeks leading up to the first Sunday of October (or German Unity Day, if close). As such, Oktoberfest…
August 13, 1899: Birthday of iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock
British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was born 124 years ago today on a Friday the 13th. That latter fact seems only fitting since Hitchcock’s style has forever become associated with suspense and terror. While his most well-known films came out in the 1950s and 1960s, Hitchcock’s career lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1970s…
National Book Lovers Day
National Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9th. This unofficial holiday focuses on reading, literature, and the power books have to preserve culture, provide a means of escape from everyday life, and inform readers about places, people, and concepts they would not normally experience by providing a window into someone else's story. Take a…
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