Attention Birders (Or Anyone)! The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Coming To Tacoma!

By
If you like watching the birds around your home, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) could use your help. The GBBC is a yearly citizen science project to track world bird populations. It’s sponsored by the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Tacoma Library has helpful resources that can assist you…
View More about Attention Birders (Or Anyone)! The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Coming To Tacoma!

Traveling in Style

By
Both the Bon Marche and Rhodes Bros. devoted a corner window display to a Hawaiian theme in late January, 1958. Mannequins are shown against a Diamond Head backdrop dressed in appropriate travel apparel for a journey to the Hawaiian Islands. Travelers were more formally attired in the 1950s than in later years. Women wore hats…
View More about Traveling in Style

Sleeping Beauty Stories For Brave Hearts Only

By
These five novels share the familiar landscape of Sleeping Beauty’s story, but each imagines the journey across that landscape in wildly different ways. Enchantment This novel tells of a love so strong it brings this pair of seekers together despite profound cultural differences.  But now, stalked across worlds by a terrible darkness they have to…
View More about Sleeping Beauty Stories For Brave Hearts Only

Soviet Gold

By
In January of 1935, 9,600 tons of gold bearing ore were removed from the holds of the Soviet freighter "Brandon" by huge iron buckets at the ASARCO refinery in Ruston. In 1935, The Soviet Union did not have a large enough smelter of its own to process the tons of ore being extracted from its…
View More about Soviet Gold
1 - 10 of 24