Pack Your Holiday Gatherings with Fun & Games
As we prepare for extended time with family and friends, our focus is generally consumed with meal plans, holiday décor, and travel arrangements. Many of us enjoy spending time with loved ones, yet we face stretches of boredom while waiting on others to complete necessary tasks or just being away from our normal routines. The […]
Patterns in Nature
Patterns in nature are everywhere. From our DNA to galactic formation, patterns in nature are displayed throughout our environment as a sequence of numbers, termed the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is a pattern of numbers that equals the sum of the previous two numbers before them – 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, […]
Researching the Veterans in Your Family Tree
As Veteran’s Day remembrance events pass by, we have time to reflect on those veterans in our community and family whom we have not met and thanked them for their service. Honoring them and remembering their accomplishments is essential. As former House Representative, Henry Waxman once said, “The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans […]
November is Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. And we start by acknowledging that our community lives and works on lands once occupied by several indigenous tribes, such as the Wea, Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Wyandot, Winnebago, and Delaware. We’d like to invite you to challenge yourself this month to learn about the groups that used to live […]
Montgomery County Historical Images at CDPL
Did you know that the Crawfordsville District Public Library (CDPL) collects Montgomery County historical photographs? After the photographs are loaned or given to us, scans are created and placed in a database that everyone can access from anywhere through our website. The result is a little-known, but extremely helpful, resource for research on local families […]
Fall Activities at CDPL
Fall is in the air and the Youth Services Department at the Crawfordsville District Public Library has a lot of fun activities planned! Come in and pick up a Pumpkin Patch Reading Challenge. We have one for ages under 5 and one for kindergarten through 5th grade. Complete the activities to earn a prize and […]
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
At the beginning of the COVID-19 shutdown, families came together. It was a return to family cooking, bread baking, game night, and family book clubs. Gone was the nightly rush to get homework done between taekwondo, dance class, and soccer games. Things slowed down; families spent more time together and got to know each other […]
National Fossil Day
National Fossil Day is the day to celebrate our geologic heritage! This day, established by the National Park Service in 2010, highlights the scientific and educational values of paleontology and the importance of fossils in not only our past but how we might learn about our future. Fossils are geologic time capsules—plants and animals that […]
Grief and Celebration of a Life Well Lived
The past couple of years have felt like one long season of global grief. While grappling with personal sorrows, we have also been immersed in news of heartbreaking national and global events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic deaths, the Uvalde mass shooting and other mass shootings, and atrocities committed in the war in Ukraine. The […]
Autumn is in the Air at CDPL
Happy Fall! Happy Autumnal Equinox! September 21st or 22nd, depending on where one is in the world, fall starts on one of these two dates. Autumn comes from Latin for “aequi”, which means equal, and “nox” meaning night; day and night are equal. The equinox represents the passing of summer into fall, as the sun […]
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