Friday is the bonus day in 2008, the extra day, leap day. If you check on Wikipedia you will find a very succinct description covering several cultures telling you that the calendar is a complicated thing. If you want the backstory, perhaps a more detailed and readable explanation of how leap day came to be, …
Monthly Archives: February 2008
The Academy Awards
The 80th annual Academy Awards will be presented this Sunday, hosted by Jon Stewart. You can both read about past awards and check out award winning movies at the library. Van Wylen is not Blockbuster, and doesn’t intend to be, but we have worked to improve our selection by buying prize winners and best reviewed …
Valentine’s Day and the Library
What’s on the library shelves this Wednesday? Good things for your valentine at no cost to you! Check out “Love Songs from the Movies” for background music, “English Love Poems” for some traditional verse, “Love Poems of Ovid” for a really classical approach, or “Nothing But You: Love Stories from the New Yorker” for a …
Parliament of Fowls Reading
The Cup & Chaucer, located in the lobby of the Van Wylen Library, will be hosting a read-aloud of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls” on Valentine’s Day at 11a.m.This poem is the first reference to the idea that St. Valentine’s Day is a special day for lovers.All are welcome to come and be part of …
Lent and the library
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent. Forty days are set aside before Easter as a time of preparation. For some this might include extra devotions, prayers, fasting, or giving up favorite treats. Between the College and the Seminary we have many books about this season, but I would like …