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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
May this be a year full of happiness, good health, and good fortune.
Happy September 1st!
For those of you that have school tomorrow. Good luck and have a great first day!
Old photos
Here’s an old photo of the Maplewood Community Library which opened in 1959.
- Children’s side of the Maplewood Library
This week in history…
April 24 :
On this day in 1800, the Library of Congress was established. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
April 25:
On this day in 1953, in the journal Nature, James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper that first described the structure of DNA.
In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had finished identifying and mapping the genes in human DNA.
April 26:
Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1822 on this day. He is known as the founder of American landscape architecture and designer of New York’s Central Park. He also designed Rochester’s Highland, Genesee Valley, and Seneca Parks.
Trout Lake at Seneca Park
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. A day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick.
Closed Monday, January 17
The library will be closed Monday, January 17 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
See you Tuesday!
