Read Part I | Read Part II | Read Part III | Read Part IV | Read Part V | Read Part VI Bring in the super sniffers! It’s been almost a year since we first walked in the field. This project is well worth the time it is taking, and continues to unfold in many ways. KYK9 […]
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The Children’s Room at Hicksville’s Johnson Memorial Library was closed to the public from Aug. 26-29 to allow staffers Amber and Karlee to give the space a makeover. The results were revealed Monday, Aug. 30! First, let’s take a look at what the room looked like before Amber and Karlee
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DPLS Adult Services Associate Sarah Marshall returns to the site of Worthington Cemetery to see what dowsing rods might uncover.
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This is the third installment of an ongoing research series wherein Sarah Marshall, Adult Services Associate at Defiance Public Library, investigates this history of Defiance County’s only historic Black cemetery, what’s become of it, and where we might go from here.
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“Tails & Tales” Summer Reading Challenge begins June 1 at Defiance Public Library System Summer library programs for all ages enhance lifelong learning and provide meaningful, enjoyable experiences available to everyone in the community. This year, Defiance Public Library System is excited to host the Tails & Tales Summer Reading
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Read Part I | Read Part II | Read Part III | Read Part IV | Read Part V | Read Part VI “Are you at the library now? I’m in town and can stop in. I’d like to see that picture of the field…” After posting part one of the Worthington Cemetery Project, we received word of
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Read Part I | Read Part II | Read Part III | Read Part IV | Read Part V | Read Part VI Digging into the past is never an easy task. While researching Riverside Cemetery in Defiance for our annual walking history tour, I came across a unique but mostly forgotten cemetery in rural Defiance County. A
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In addition to those highlighted on our Self-guided Riverside Cemetery Walk, two other burial grounds have been unearthed in Defiance, both by accident! On March 26, 1910, the Defiance Democrat reported that while digging to build a new home on Front Street (now Fort Street) a burial ground was discovered.
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We here at DPLS are exceptionally excited to announce that following nearly a decade in storage at the Defiance Development and Visitors’ Bureau (nine years, to be exact!), the big, beautiful desk that many remember as the centerpiece of our main lobby at the Defiance Public Library has returned! Well,
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Here at the Defiance Public Library, we’ve recently welcomed this (unintentionally chilling) cardboard rendering of the indomitable Susan B. Anthony: Susan B. Anthony, committed to social equality, played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. As such, what better way to encourage curiosity about the history of voting rights,
