104 years

February 27th is an important anniversary for the Wallace Library, as the picture above illustrates. Thank you, Rodney!
Wallace Library and Arts Building, Built 1884. Photograph June 1, 1959. See comment for more information.

Mimus polyglottos

In the swirl of snow in the courtyard today, our own Library Mockingbird still guards his hedges (but the musical shuttle in his throat is still until spring).

Book blogs

One of the most elegant book blogs on the web is BibliOdyssey (which has links to many other interesting book blogs on its blogroll). We'll start making a list of interesting book and library blogs for people to browse -- watch for them to appear on the sidebar.

Word of the Week

Beclown: v., to make into a clown, as in "He has beclowned himself."

(This is an example of the sort of thing that could be a regular feature of the Fitchburg Public Library blog: a word of the week, an author of the day, a map of the month, a seasonal poem, a book of the month; many such possibilities are open to us.)

(How about a call number of the week?)

Thoreau at Fitchburg, 150 years ago

In February, 1857, 150 years ago this month, Henry David Thoreau came up from Concord to give a lecture for the members of the Fitchburg Athenaeum. Thoreau is the subject of the wonderful recent children's book Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, which you can check out from FPL or even read online.

Even books were new once

Welcome to the FPL blog!

Welcome to the new blog for the Wallace Library in Fitchburg, Massachusetts!