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iStock.com/Jacob Ammentorp Lund There may be no greater repository of analog information than the library, a glorious assembly of printed pages that can take us on adventures, educate us, and fill our days and nights with details of worlds beyond our own—all free of charge. Today, there are roughly 116,867 public and academic libraries dotting the country. To celebrate National Library Week, we've rounded up 25 fascinating facts about these irreplaceable institutions. 1. Benjamin Franklin started up a lending library in 1731. Hulton Archive/Getty Images One of the oldest public libraries in...

Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable: Tuesday, 4 p.m., Library. CoreSyn with Trent: Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 8 a.m. at Fiske Field basketball courts. In bad weather, at the Legion Hall. English as a second language: Thursdays, 7 p.m. with Teri Piccozzi, Library. Functional Fitness with Susan on Zoom: Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m. Email [email protected] to sign up and receive zoom link. Intermediate French Conversation: Thursdays, 4 p.m., Library, Zoom. Music Trivia & Light Movement: Mondays, 11-11:45 a.m., Senior Center via Zoom, [email protected]. Out of school fun zone for grades pre-K to 4:...

Watch Colman Domingo, Ts Madison in 'Zola's Wild 'Hoe Trip' Trailer The story captivated the internet in a Twitter thread once, now it's back on the big screen. It's time for a road trip. Back in 2015, a Twitter thread held social media users in suspense. In it, Azia Wells, known as "Zola," etched out a 148-tweet tale about how she met a girl at Hooters and goes on the ride of her life involving sex trafficking, pimps, murders, and crazy boyfriends. It was stupefying with the likes of Missy Elliot, KeKe Palmer, Solange Knowles, and Ava Duvernay all tweeting about it among others. And now, it'...

March 16, 2021, 12:03 am Ranvir Singh is among the celebrities set to take part in the BBC’s literary series Between The Covers (Ian West/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Strictly Come Dancing star Stacey Dooley, Good Morning Britain presenter Ranvir Singh and TV chef Rick Stein are among the celebrities taking part in the BBC’s literary series Between The Covers. Each episode of the six-part series features ...

Women’s Prize for Fiction: Our top 5 picks from the longlist Looking for some lockdown reading inspiration? You’re in luck; the Women’s Prize for Fiction has just revealed this year’s longlist. The judging panel includes Booker Prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo, journalist Nesrine Malik and Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail. Evaristo said: “We’re confident that we have chosen 16 standout novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations. These novels fascinated, moved,...