March 11, 2010 RSS feed / Features

Kellogg-Hubbard Library

Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:00-8:00pm More...

How Much Do You Know About St Patrick's Day?

1. Where is it rumored that leprechauns bury their pots of gold? 2. In St. Patrick’s time, who ranked as high as kings? 3. What was St. Patrick rumored to have removed from Ireland? 4. The first St. More...

The Body

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6 lb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. More...

Roxbury Free Library News

LIBRARY BUDGET REQUEST PASSES AT TOWN MEETING: Many thanks to the people of Roxbury, who approved the library’s $12,000 budget request for FY 2010-2011. The library trustees will fundraise an additional $4,300, almost ? More...

Answers to “How Well Do You Know St. Patrick’s Day?”

1. Of course, at the end of the rainbow. 2. Poets 3. Snakes 4. Boston 5. The Chicago River and the San Antonio River 6. By pounding on drums 7. It is the day St. Patrick was said to have died 8. Shamrocks 9. Making their shoes 10. You get pinched More...

Silly Social Scenes

PROFITING FROM NUKULAR FALLOUT – As we were typing our latest report on the nefarious deeds of the Three Municipal Stooges, we were interrupted by a bellowing such as an enraged bull calf might make. More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

The 35th Annual Smalltown Boys Ice Fishing Extravaganza

PEOPLE WHO complain that baseball is a slow moving, boring sport have never been ice fishing. More...

Ex Libris

Brown Public Library

FREE TALK, Preserving Personal & Family History using Oral History techniques Date: Thursday, March 11th Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Brown Public Library, Northfield Cost: FREE More...

Ask the HOME TEAM

My grandson and his wife gave me a heated mattress pad this winter so I could have a warm bed to get into at night. They said it saves $131 per year on energy bills, but I don’t see the logic in that so I haven’t used it. More...

NEWS FROM THE HILL

IN THE EARLY 1900’s women across the world were struggling with numerous social and economic issues. These included the right to vote, fair wages, safe working conditions and healthcare. More...

Ainsworth Public Library

SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO ANN HEGARTY More...