Do You Have Your Dance Card?
The library staff were honored to be asked to decorate a room at the C.H. Moore Homestead for the Christmas holiday tours again this year!...
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Morgan
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Everything is Moving!!
Last week I noticed that some things at the library had been moved! As I looked around, I noticed this new "Local History" section! I...
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Logan
- Sep 19, 2022
- 7 min
How Apple ‘n Pork Got Its Start
Yes, it’s already that time of year again, it’s time for the annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival! While the first Apple ‘n Pork is still well...
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Logan
- May 3, 2022
- 8 min
Revere’s Roundabout Ride to Clinton
In today’s history blog, I outline the winding path Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere’s own company took to begin manufacturing Revere...
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Logan
- Mar 29, 2022
- 11 min
Vespasian Warner’s War pt 1: Enlistment to Belmont
In today’s history blog, we begin tracing the path of the Civil War as the library’s namesake, Vespasian Warner, would have experienced it.
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Logan
- Jan 3, 2022
- 10 min
Clinton, Carl E. Person, and the 1911 Shopmen’s Strike, part 2
On December 30, 1913, Carl Person shot and killed the former police chief of Clinton, Tony Musser. Today’s blog covers the first two...
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Logan
- Sep 30, 2021
- 7 min
The Lost Art of Jail Breaking
This month’s blog focuses on a phenomenon I had assumed only really existed in movies and books, or maybe in the old wild west: jail breaks.
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Logan
- Aug 31, 2021
- 7 min
What’s in a Namesake: DeWitt Clinton - September 2021
How did DeWitt County get it's name? What about the name Clinton for the town? Here is a look at the Namesake of both!
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