What things say

Our southern highlanders / by Horace Kephart. Outing Publishing Company, 1913.

Cottolene: shortens your food, lengthens your life

From: The dong with the luminous nose by Edward Lear.

Inscription in the back of The philanthropist, or, Political peace-maker between all honest men of both parties / by M.L. Weems printed in 1809.

"Sometimes the only thing we can control with confidence is what we know." Carr, D. (2002) A community mind. Public Libraries, p. 286.

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2209

George Washington’s will specifically left any “liquors and groceries” in the house at the time of his death to his wife, Martha. I feel like that shouldn’t have had to be spelled out... And a little morbid information about who carried Washington's casket

I love old handwriting ❤️ inscription dated 1819 in a book printed in 1800.

"Museums have the responsibility to compensate for the failure of other institutions, such as schools, to show members of minority groups their stake in society." -Edmund Barry Gaither

Oh, Dove chocolate, how did you know that I would be filled with regret as I opened your beautiful shiny wrapping to eat your insides? Thank you for providing the encouragement I needed to eat the dark chocolate morsel that was patiently waiting for me to complete it’s journey into my stomach.

The new hostess of to-day by Linda Hull Larned. New York : Scribner's Sons, 1931. Page 383

Book and libraries in camps and battle : the Civil War experience by David Kaser. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.

UNC Chapel Hill's library was used as a horse stable during the Civil War. Now that's a little uncalled for... Book and libraries in camps and battle : the Civil War experience by David Kaser. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984. Page 90.

Hints on hats adapted to the heads of people by Henry Melton. London : John Camden Hotten, 1865.

Hints on hats adapted to the heads of people by Henry Melton. London : John Camden Hotten, 1865.