Here is another fruit crate label. This one is for the Placentia Mutual Orange Assn’s Albion label. It features Valencia oranges next to some quite lovely roses.
Access the label here
Here is another fruit crate label. This one is for the Placentia Mutual Orange Assn’s Albion label. It features Valencia oranges next to some quite lovely roses.
Access the label here
The next entry we’re sharing from our digital collection comes from the Autograph collection. Here we have the signature (& some supplemental documents) of Author and Poet Charles Follen Adams. Signature taken in 1907. Materials cover period from 1901-1910
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Have you made a New Year’s Resolution to read more? Do you already read a lot and need an excuse to read even more? Do you just like the idea, now that we mention it, of planning to read more? Whatever your reason the 2025 Winter Reading Challenge is here for you!
This year’s Winter Reading Challenge begins on January 2 and runs through February 28
Complete ten hours of reading and be entered into a drawing to win a gift card from The Library Store.
How do you play?
Cute little coloring pencil set sign up prize for even more incentive (while supplies last)
So get the whole family signed up and start reading!
Our January read will be Fuzz by Mary Roach. To quote the book description:
Join Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree?
Stop by the branch to pick up a copy to read, while they last. You will find them in the usual location, just ask if you don’t know where that is.
We will meet to discuss the book on Saturday, January 25 at 3 p.m. It will be a hybrid meeting so you have the option of attending in person or via Zoom. If you’d like to join us via Zoom let us know at ayosco@lapl.org so we can get the link to you.
This time let’s turn our attention to the menu collection. Here’s one for Aashiana from the 1980s. The menu notations were done by Merrill Shindler. The restaurant was located on Wilshire Blvd.
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Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler(One of the branch's most checked out titles last month)
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. BanksRosewater by Tade ThompsonThe Fifth Season by N. K. JemisinThe Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
If you Liked
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté(One of the branch's most checked out non-fiction books last month)
Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby NormanInflamed by Rupa Marya & Raj PatelWeathering by Arline T. GeronimusEmotional Labor by Rose Hackman
The Arroyo Writing Group will meet on January 16th at 6 p.m. We will be sharing our responses to the writing prompt:
You are asked to review a luxury hotel on the beach
The Arroyo Writing Group is for anyone interested in trying their hand at writing. We welcome you whether you are new to the art or and old expert looking for convivial place to share your work. Join our group for practice both writing short pieces across many genres and sharing your writing with others.
Who: Anyone of any level of experience. All that’s required is an interest in writing, a willingness to share your work, and an ability to give positive feedback to others.
What: Our writing group. Each month we will engage with a different writing prompt preparing our own short work in response and bringing it to share at our meeting. Prompts will range freely across genres.
Where: The Arroyo Seco Library / 6145 N. Figueroa St, 90042 / 323-255-0537 / ayosco@lapl.org
When: We will meet on the Third Thursday of each Month at 6 p.m.
Why: The why is down to you. It might be for the practice writing. It might be for the practice sharing what you write with others. It might be for the company of others who are also trying to compose. It might be….
Start writing and make plans to join us
This month we asked can you find an image of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the Royal Princesses? One such image is seen in part in the included image. Aten, the Solar Disk, blessing the royal family; detail of sunk relief fragment from Tell el-Amarna [Dynasty XVIII]. Date ca. 1350 B.C.E.
The image was found in JSTOR. JSTOR provides access to journal articles, books, images and primary sources. Access includes ARTSTOR, JSTOR's cross disciplinary collection of over 2 million images from around the world, all rights-cleared and discoverable. It is a resource you can access with your library card from any branch computer.
Citation:
Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the Royal Princesses. limestone, ca. 1350 B.C.E. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18134402. Accessed 29 Aug. 2024.