Join us at the Library at noon on November 2 for this month’s Secrets in the Stacks. Library Director Mary Sellen will discuss the 1660  atlas  Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.  The presentation will focus on the 20 maps from this title that are in the Library’s collections.  Topics will include cosmology, geography, printing, and art.  Be sure [...]

We recently unearthed another Civil War letter in our archives.  The letter was written by Charles Pye to Colonel Thomas Millar on October 4, 1862.  In the letter, Pye requests that his slave, oxen, and cart be returned to him after they were confiscated by Union cavalry.  Pye lived near Port Tobacco, Maryland and his slave [...]