National Nutrition Month
March 2012
Come visit our display and learn more about good nutrition in general and in particular its relationship to Diabetes. One of our very own Honor Students at WCC participated in its formation.
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February Book Display
New Madrid Earthquakes
200th Year Anniversary
New Madrid, Missouri Seismic Zone is the most seismically active region in the Central United States today and is famous for a series of Three major earthquakes in 1811 and 1812. They are noted for being the most prolonged series of earthquakes in US history. Come visit our display concerning earthquakes that have occurred locally and worldwide.
January Book Display
Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Anniversary
January 15, 1929
Come check out some of our collection concerning the history of Rev. King. Black Civil Rights leader, minister, advocate of nonviolence and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel peace prize.
December Book Display
Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War
December 1898
Following the conclusion of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the American and Spanish Ambassadors met in Paris, France to negotiate a treaty. Come check out the history leading up to, through-out and the final results of the war, in our collection of books at the Todd Library.
November Book Display
Anniversary of the Assassination
The end of “Camelot” occurred on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was slain by a sniper while riding in an open automobile at Dallas, Texas during his campaign for re-election. Come check out Todd Library’s collection on his life and death.