Adult
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Celebrate the Days – May
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, crafts and hobbies, Gardening, Holidays, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with celebrations
There are holidays and observations every day of the month – so many reasons to celebrate. I’m not saying there should be cake every day, but I’m not saying there […]
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Earth Day 2021
Posted about 2 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, environment, Events, Holidays, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with conservation, Earth Day, ecology, environment, global warming, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
“In nature, nothing exists alone.”— Rachel Carson, 1962 Even if a big Earth Day celebration is not happening in RVA, there are events going on virtually. From National Geographic’s Earth […]
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Poetry Has Gone to the Dogs
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
April is both National Poetry Month AND National Pet Month. What better way to celebrate than with poetry about dogs, for dogs, and by dogs. Check out the Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Foundation […]
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Celebrating National Poetry Month
Posted about 2 years ago by Alexandra Zukas
Hello, readers! Not only is this week National Library Week (and coincidentally, RPL’s reopening week), but it’s also currently National Poetry Month! I’ll admit that I haven’t always found poetry […]
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Celebrate the Days – April
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers! Rain, rain, go away – come again another day. April is the kindest (or is it the cruelest?) month. Maybe we all need […]
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Get Growing!
Posted about 2 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Fiction, Gardening, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
Spring is here, bulbs are popping, trees are budding and the birds are busy! Working with seeds and plants is a great way to relieve stress and to focus on […]
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Memories of Ireland
Posted about 2 years ago by Laura Price
With a great-great-grandmother named Margaret Mary Murphy, it was a sure bet that I would someday see Ireland. Even though over 30 years have passed since I visited, the overall […]
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Jailed For Freedom: Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse
Posted about 2 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Events, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Angela Dodson, Doris Stevens, Forced Feeding, Jailed For Freedom, Kate Heffelfinger, law, Law Library, Lucy Burns, Maud Powell Jamison, Meldon Jenkins-Jones, National Women's Party, Night of Terror, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Pauline Adams, Silent Sentinels, Turning Point Suffrage Memorial, Women's Suffrage, Women's Suffrage Banners, Women's Suffrage Prison Special, Woodrow Wilson
Lorton, Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse,built in 1910 and originally used to hold prisoners completing short sentences for offenses like disorderly conduct, played a key role in women’s suffrage history. National Woman’s […]
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Black Suffragists and Activists: Addie Waites Hunton
Posted about 2 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Black History Month, History and Preservation, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with Addie Waited Hunton, African American Suffragist, Law Library, Natioanl Association of Colored Women, Suffragist, William A. Hunton
In preparation for Black History Month, I did a little research and uncovered some fascinating people like Addie Waites Hunton, an African American suffragist, activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. […]
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Celebrating the Year of the Ox
Posted about 2 years ago by Laura Price
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Adult, Asian American, Children's, Families, Holidays, Teens
| Tagged with books for adults, children's books, Lunar New Year, picture books, teens, Year of the Ox, young adult
It's the Year of the Ox! Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a new book!
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