a bird i like to hold

“Taking book from library, 5-year-old Johnny, who taught himself to read, selects The Ring of the Nibelung, which looks interesting to him. Library has wide choice of simpler books like the Bobbsey Twins, but bright children tire of these quickly, abandon them in favor of poetry, biography, science and politics.”

During the Great Depression, the Works Projects Administration commissioned artists to create posters for the Department of the Interior and National Parks Service. As far as design goes, these certainlyhold up over time. You can see more here.

Grammys: “Maximum trolling achieved”: Deadmau5 showed up at the Grammys wearing Skrillex’s personal cellphone number on his T-shirt.

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, 1961.

Joan, a 19 year old Freedom Rider, was sentenced to two months in prison for her involvement in the integration of a Jackson, Mississippi bound train.  She served more than the required two months because each addition day reduced her $200 fine by $3.

In the Fall of 1961, Joan transferred from Duke University to historically black Tougaloo Southern Christian College because she felt integration should be a two way street.