Libraries are places where we connect people to information that may be useful or interesting to them. Looking at some history, and connecting it to the materials we may have in our libraries, can be a good way to convince patrons to use and enjoy all the things we provide!
This week we are looking at September 14. Of course a lot of things have happened on this date – news and the big stories are the unusual things that are going on around us. One interesting thing that has happened today in 1716: The first lighthouse lit in the American colonies is lit in Boston Harbor.
Bring this event from history into your library! You can set up a variety of different programs, including: looking at navigation maps, building models of lighthouses, memorizing Morse Code, reading books about Massachusetts.
Here are a few books you might add to your collection or share with your patrons – or just enjoy yourself!
- CW Geek’s Guide to Having Fun with Morse Code, by Dan Romanchik KB6NU
- As Easy as Morse: Memorize the Morse Code using Fun Illustrations, by Sanyukta Bhatnagar
- The Lighthouse: Five Island Cove, Book 1, by Jessie Newton
- American Lighthouses: A Comprehensive Guide To Exploring Our National Coastal Treasures, by Bruce Roberts
- The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, by Huw Lewis-Jones
- The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found, by Violet Moller
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, by Tim Marshall
- The Boston Freedom Trail: In Words and Pictures, by Robert Wheeler
- 111 Places in Boston That You Must Not Miss (111 Places in …. That You Must Not Miss), by Heather Kapplow
- Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them, by Joseph M. Bagley