It has been quite a while since I last posted. The library has been undergoing some major improvements. We were…
Happy St. Valentine’s Day to everyone. On this date in history, Oregon was admitted to the union in 1859. Arizona…
When I was an ambitious, eager and most importantly, energetic graduate student, I read Thomas Carlyle’s many works. I had…
Did you know the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was maybe 1/16th Russian? Due to the foreign alliances, his…
This is the title for our Brown Bag lunch in February. Not only has genetic testing become a tool for…
The Brown Bag lunch will resume Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The topic will be DNA testing–the various tests, what to…
Now that I have your attention, this was published in an article in 2003 and I had read about it. …
It is the holiday season and that means family gatherings. Family stories are exchanged and family members are remembered. For…
I just read in an historical fiction novel about the Great Stink of 1858 in London. This occurred in the…
Did you know that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, dentures were made from the teeth of executed…