Rock Your Zen

At "Rock Your Zen" you will be applying structured patterns with colored paints and ink to rocks. This is Zendoodling; meditation through art. You will find this is a wonderful method of finding inner calm, expressing outer creativity and adding significant beauty to the world. This program is appropriate for those over the age of…
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Logs and Loggers

Two photographs were artfully combined in this March, 1936 work by photographer Marvin Boland. Large logs are pictured aboard an open railroad car on tracks while in the background are three unidentified men posed at the base of an enormous old-growth tree. See more featured images and posts…
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Country Music

Country music originated in the southern United States in the 1920’s.  It takes its roots from the southeast U. S., specifically Appalachian folk music and blues music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Embrace the music industry’s most successful genre with these albums and books available from Tacoma Public Library. For…
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Mem Fox for Diversity

Mem Fox is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies and holds three honorary doctorates. Her childrens picture books have been translated into 19 languages and usually center around themes of acceptance and ethnic diversity. Mem Fox lives in her home country of Australia but is constantly on the move as an advocate for literacy…
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Buzzy and Ricky

In 1940, the heated election fight between former mayor Melvin G. Tennent and Harry P. Cain ended in March with Mr. Cain elected mayor of Tacoma. Mr. Cain's name had been placed on the ballot by a superior court mandamus order days before the election. "This is the dirtiest deal ever pulled in the city…
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Book Lovers Read On

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…the man who never reads lives only one.” George R. R. Martin Explore new reading interests with recommendations from these insightful books available at Tacoma Public Library. For even more inspiration, feast your eyes on these beautiful photographs of book lovers around the world…
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