On a subzero night 70 years ago, tears were streaming down the face of Geneva Kebler Wiskemann. She stood in front of the Estes Leadley Funeral Home and gazed across Walnut Street as smoke and flames engulfed the State Office Building,
In the dark winter of 1936-1937 a group of Flint autoworkers decided they had enough of low wages, harassment and unsafe working conditions.
When Capital Area District Library’s Jean Bolley first donned the Cat in the Hat costume for a children’s storytime, she didn’t know it would become one of her favorite work outfits.
Early indications look like 2021 will be a very good year for reading. At the beginning of each year, I compile a list of books I want to read. The following list does not include political tomes on the recent election or the future of democracy. Those will come later.
Local writer Melissa F. Kaelin concluded a different response was needed, and she decided to experiment with social media to connect with other writers and creatives while social distancing.
This Christmas season why not start — or continue — a tradition of reading classic stories to your children?
The houses may be little, but they’re not made of “ticky-tack” and they definitely don’t all look the same — with hats off to songwriter Melvina Reynolds.
When Elizabeth Field Connor discovered her grandfather’s army footlocker from World War I while digging through her father’s musty basement, she had no idea the treasures and mysteries it would unleash
If you’ve read a book from the Capital Area District Library in the last several years, it’s likely that librarian Jessica Trotter was behind its inclusion in CADL’s expansive catalog.
A long discarded Lansing Fire Department phone log contains a simple entry indicating an emergency call from Bath on May 18, 1927.
