Shelf Space: What’s New at the Harvard Public Library, 7/10/26
New for Children They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt Meet Sam, an insolent pug and incidental hero who will stop at nothing…
A Look Back: The way we were… January 1981
In an effort to meet the budget dictates of Proposition 2½, approved by Massachusetts voters in 1980, the School Committee was faced with reducing…
A Look Back: The way we were… Ice storm of 1921
“On Sunday, Nov. 27, 1921 an ice storm began which continued into the middle of the week, the sun not appearing until Thursday. Trees…
Reflections: Feeling lucky
When I returned to work this week in the aftermath of the ice storm, I found it hard to reconcile the comfortable normalcy of…
A Look Back: The way we were… December 1994, 2000, and 2001
December 1994 The library sold off most of its collection of long-playing record albums, which included classical, jazz, folk, show tunes, and more. Collected…
A Look Back: The way we were… December 1993 and 1999
December 1993 Selectmen decided to ask voters for authority to postpone Annual Town Meeting from the last Saturday in March to the last Saturday…
A Look Back: The way we were… November 2000
An editorial commented on the unusually warm November: “It has to make you think—the globe really does seem to be warming, and who knows…
Wingin’ It: Winter wanderers
Now that most of our summer visiting birds have left for warmer climes, we are seeing the return of the birds that summered and…
A Look Back: The way we were… November 1975 and 1976
November 1975 A committee was appointed by the selectmen to investigate Harvard’s landfill operations, and explored such questions as: Are there other or better…
A Look Back: The way we were… November 1980, 1982, and 1996
November 1980 Town departments were challenged with cutting services by 5 percent because of the passage of Proposition 2½. The Finance Committee said that…
It’s Only Natural: Seed dispersal
A milkweed pod. (Photo by Mary Holland) What is the point of a flower, its raison d’etre? Although flowers enrich our landscapes, they do…
