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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Legends of the Trees

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During a recent weeding session, I ran across an obscure little book titled Legends of Famous Trees . Published in 1963, this is an older bo...

Old-Timey Superstitions

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While researching a recent genealogy question, one of our reference staff came across some interesting tidbits in an old Mississippi newspap...

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Hometown Mississippi: Attala County

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This blog post originally appeared 10/24/07. This post of unusual and unusually acquired place names comes from the great county of Attala...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Try Wheaties Instead

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Over the weekend a meebo patron asked why his doctor advised him against eating grapefruit while on a certain medication. The website for th...

Friday, May 21, 2010

General Lee, Dr. Freud, and PlayStation

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For the past two years I’ve flirted with the idea of purchasing a video game system. I once had Sid Meir’s Civilization for my then new Pla...

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Library Links

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This blog post originally appeared 10/19/07. Warning: some of these links are almost unbearably nerdy -- but that's the name of the ga...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Art Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

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Last week, a patron called with a question about mud painting and I was off, digging for answers and learning about art along the way. I ha...

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