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Hello Friends, For our bee watchers, you may have noticed that our hive has gone quiet. I can’t be entirely certain what has happened until we are able to look inside, but it is the…

Dear Friends, I can’t complain that we were spared the worst of the storm earlier this week. I spoke with friends on Long Island who told me about 85-90mph winds coming onshore of Montauk, and…

Dear Friends,   At the beginning of the year, you always see all sorts of resolutions and reading challenges that pop up online and in person. It feels like mid-February is around the time where everyone has given up on them – the…

Dear Friends,     Today we are talking about a little-observed holiday: February 12th is International Darwin Day! According to darwinday.org: “The mission of International Darwin Day is to inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and…

Dear Friends, A quick bee update for the winter. The population is down significantly from the summer. That is to be expected as the winter, longer-lived worker population takes over minding the hive. The Queen…

Dear Friends,  Skidompha has so many different resources, it’s sometimes easy to miss them as you go about your normal library activities. In response, I wanted to let you know about a few new collections we have on…

Dear Friends, Did anyone catch the Aurora on Tuesday or Wednesday? Apparently, that was quite a solar storm! Not Carrington level, but still stronger than the Halloween storm of 2003, and likely strongest this century….

Dear Friends, I was made aware of some very sad news last week; Pam Gormley, Director of Skidompha Library, had passed. My heart and condolences are with Pam’s family at this time, and I wish…

Hello, friends! I’m stepping in for Matthew this week. This Sunday, the 21st, is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. For us, that means we’ll see just under…

Hello friends, In December of 1868, The Atlantic published a review of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The book was not new – it had originally been published December 19, 1843 (and the first edition sold out entirely…