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January, 2010

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Peace Love Hope

Written by Sady on January 15th, 2010

This morning I was lucky to witness students from Brooklyn’s PS261 Magnet School for Integrating the Arts on their March on Brooklyn Borough Hall in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  They were carrying signs that read Peace and Hope and I Have a Dream and some students were chanting “Peace, Love, Hope”.  The cellphone photos below capture just a bit of the inspiring spirit these young people brought to Brooklyn today.

Students from PS261 March on Borough Hall

Students from PS261 March on Borough Hall

HOPE

HOPE and the Statue of Liberty saying PEACE

I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

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Meet Emma

Written by Sady on January 5th, 2010

Emma is the name of BHS’s ever-growing catablog of archives, manuscripts and special collections, including oral histories.

The catablog is named after Emma Toedteberg, who was BHS’s librarian for more than 50 years. She began as an assistant librarian in 1869, just a few years after BHS was founded, and was promoted to Librarian in 1889, serving until shortly before her death in 1936.

Try browsing the collections by the Category Oral History and if something peaks your interest, you are welcome to come listen to oral history collections in the Othmer Library.

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