The Library’s first online exhibit is now up!  This exhibit showcases Henry Bushby’s manuscript “Notes on Knots.”  Composed of eight volumes with over 1,900 hand-written pages and beautifully drawn pen and ink diagrams, Bushby’s manuscript represents an in depth study of knotting and ropework, as well as knot theory.   Be sure to click on the [...]

The Library has in its collections a very unique and rare newspaper: The Wedge.  This newspaper is not only an interesting piece of local history, but it also is an artifact from a little-known, but highly-important time in Virginia history. The Wedge is generally understood to be the first newspaper published inNewport News,VA.  It was [...]