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The Library of Congress has a collection of books that would make any bookworm turn green with envy. One of their most fascinating collections is their rare children's book library. Visitors can read the books in their entirety from the Library of Congress's online catalog. Here are 11 of our favorites. 1. A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway (1900) This book by Kate Greenaway was designed to acquaint children with the alphabet. With simple sentences and elaborate drawings, A Apple Pie is kind of like an old-timey Sesame Street special. The book seems pretty promising as it starts with "A apple pi...

The post-pandemic art world in Arkansas courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art OPENING IN JULY: Crystal Bridges celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with the exhibition “Crystal Bridges at 10,” featuring more than 140 works, including Deborah Roberts’ mixed media on panel “He Looks Like Me.” What the immediate future holds for our museum-going life is still a bit murky, thanks to the unknowns of the pandemic. But what is certain is that big things are on the post-pandemic horizon, with a spruced-up and expanded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts coming in 2022 and a 100,0...

Please Donate The plan to have the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 at Lake Merced. The Lake Merced Fair that Could Have Been by Woody LaBounty (Adapted from article published in Outside Lands magazine, Jan-Mar 2015, and is put online with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.) Map of Merced Park, proposed site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915., 1915 - Designed by J. E. Pope, Civil Engineer In 1915, San Francisco celebrated the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the fair that remade a swampy area called Harbor View i...

other than sweatpants right now. A lot, then, is riding on the 93rd Academy Awards, set to take place in person this Sunday in Los Angeles. Though it’s slated to be the smallest ceremony in memory (nominees only, plus one guest), it’s also set to be one of the most complicated, between strict COVID-19 protocols and a broadcast incorporating multiple “hubs” worldwide. But architect and Tony Award–winning set designer David Rockwell has devised a set that promises to allow the proceedings to go off without a hitch and to be less snoozy for those watching at home—and he was given ...

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and the beautiful Holiday. Artists include Maxfield Parrish, Howard Chandler Christie, Charles Dana Gibson and even Alberto Vargas. The first American magazines appeared in 1741. By 1860 there were over a thousand titles in print, ballyhooing and cajoling Americans to repent, reform, learn, expand, and do everything faster and faster. The amazing energy of the United States is all here – educationalism, advertising, news, religion and quite a lot of hooey. As is pointed out in the excellent catalogue, magazines built American communities, and fashioned t...