Downtown story walk to promote ‘a community of readers’
If you read a child a story, she’ll ask for another book.
At least that’s what locals in the book business are hoping comes from the Downtown Story Walk running through February.
Library to host virtual fair of area organizations for special needs children
Leslie Junkin said she knows of a child who, when his school shut down due to the pandemic last year, thought he must have done something wrong.
The child is a special education student at his school, and his favorite thing to do every morning is ride the bus. His parents couldn’t explain to him that the bus wasn’t coming because of a deadly virus.
Columbus librarians launch ‘Worth Reading Wednesday’ podcast
In the passenger seat of his grandma’s car, “Scoob” Lamar leaned back, closed his eyes and sighed.
Lamar had just seen a road sign that read “WELCOME TO ALABAMA THE BEAUTIFUL.” That sign, he thought, was beautiful.
A world of Christmas: Friends celebrate their bond with international flair
A customary stillness at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library gave way to some hustle and bustle Monday morning. Christmas was in the air.
Asylum Hill: Intriguing story of an old cemetery reaches close to home
The coffins, made of pine, are decayed by time and clay soil. Simple wooden crosses thought to have marked each burial site have long since disintegrated. The mostly anonymous graves — as many as 7,000 of them — represent the final resting place of inhabitants who died at the Mississippi Insane Asylum in Jackson between 1855 and 1935 and were interred at the Asylum Hill Cemetery.
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library receives NEH grant to restore photos
The photographic negative Mona Vance-Ali held in her hand was stiff and crinkled, tinted bright blue from chemical off-gassing.
She said it was from around the 1940s or ’50s. Nearly 70 years after it was made, on Wednesday at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, the image wasn’t even visible.
Time capsule: Looking back, through the lens of Carl Brown’s camera
For more than four decades, Carl Eugene Brown (1918-1998) was a recorder of history in Lowndes County and its surrounds. Frame by frame, he photographed community celebrations, grand openings, recitals, animals, businesses, proms, plays and portraits — the milestones and the everyday.
Mississippi’s yellow fever of 1878 topic of upcoming library talk
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System is hosting a presentation titled “Nursing Care in the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic” by Deanne Stephens on May 7 at noon in honor of National Nurses Week.
‘How can we help?’: After the storm, it takes a team
As the beam from his flashlight fell on the damage, Johnny Johnson’s heart sank as he walked through drizzle, debris and darkness toward Hunt School. Just hours earlier, an EF-3 tornado had hit Columbus, leaving its destructive mark on neighborhoods and structures including the school on 20th Street North — and the R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center housed inside.
Columbus library blooms in quilted colors
A spring exhibit of colorful quilts will fill the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library this month and next.
Pottery demo at Columbus Library set for Feb. 26
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System will host a pottery demonstration by local artist Stephen Phillips on Tuesday, Feb. 26 starting at 12:30 p.m.
Photos: Festival of Trees
Andre Hunt Jr., center, sits with Santa and Miz Claus (Bernard Taylor and Edwina Williams) at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library during the library’s Festival of Trees open house Thursday.
Treasured threads: A locally historic ‘magic carpet’ gets a new home and welcome party
A “magic carpet” that once helped children take flights of imagination is about to be in the spotlight again.
Library to see funding increase for coming year
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library employees started Tuesday believing the organization could suffer a cut of up to $91,500 in public funds next fiscal year.
A community history: Archivists complete six-year project indexing county records
In 1856, Catherine Atkins, a 26-year-old free woman of color from Maryland, sued Lowndes County resident Dunston Banks for illegally holding her as a slave — and won.
County threatens to reduce funding for library
Not one computer station sat open Wednesday afternoon in the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library on Seventh Street North.
Columbus library to host ‘Grocery Stories’ exhibit, talk in August
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will host the exhibit “Grocery Stories: Stories Behind the Counter of MS Delta Chinese Grocery Stores” from Aug. 1-25.
Rural Hill School 1938 registers now available for research
Two Rural Hill School Registers have been processed and are now available for research in the Local History Department at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.
Baker civil rights collection now digitized at Columbus library
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library (CLPL) has digitized portions of the Ezra Baker Jr. Papers housed in the Local History Department.
Carl Brown photographs now online through Mississippi Digital Library
More than 1,570 negatives taken by local photographer Carl Eugene Brown are now available online through the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL).