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Dear Friends, I think it’s an appropriate time for our quarterly bee update. Fall is here and the bees are busy as you would expect, and taking advantage of any nice weather that comes their…

Dear Friends, Skidompha recognizes the importance of our local history and our innate curiosity regarding our heritage. In response, I am happy to report we have renewed our Ancestry.com license, and added the Fold3 database…

Dear Friends, Libraries are in some ways a contradiction to themselves. Libraries will always be a place of egalitarian access to the facility, and anonymous and equitable access to information. But Libraries are also dynamic…

Dear Friends, Last week I talked a little about our librarians, and this week I want to talk a little about Skidompha and the Skidompha Book Shop. The genesis of the Skidompha Library can reliably…

Dear Friends, I proudly and frequently speak of the Skidompha staff, about their professionalism, passion, and kindness, but our own Meghan H. suggested that, in our next letter, we share some less formal information about…

Dear Friends, I confess I took a moment before I started typing trying to come to terms with September only a couple of days away. How is this possible?! This morning I noticed a few…

Dear Friends, I know we all plan early for the Labor Day Weekend so I wanted to make you aware of some great programs we have coming up for our grand finale over Labor Day weekend! Our Skidompha…

Hello friends, By the time you read this I will be down visiting family in North Carolina, and trading the (mostly) rocky beaches of Maine to sandier shorelines of the Outer Banks. I am grateful…

Hello friends, My head is spinning realizing that it will be August when you receive this note in your email. I can never get used to how quickly the summer speeds by. I can vividly…

Hello friends, I try to limit my bee notes to the seasons, quarterly posts reporting on hive changes in response to the seasons passing, fluctuations in sunlight and temperature… But we’ve had a quick turnaround…