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

Have you heard?

As of May 31st, Tokyopop Manga will be going out of business and ceasing all publication.  For more information: 

Tokyopop’s founder Stu Levy’s post.

Here are some articles about it: 

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31896

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-15/tokyopop-to-close-north-american-publishing-division

http://geeksofdoom.com/2011/04/16/tokyopop-closes-north-american-publishing-division/

Today in history

Today in history:

1861:  The American Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.

1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.