Public libraries offer many services to their communities. One of the more unique services available to some patrons via their library is U.S. passport application…
Guest ContributorJanuary 8, 2024
If you have visited the Library of Virginia in recent months, you may have noticed several new exhibit cases on the building’s second floor. These…
Mary Dean CarterJune 8, 2018
A passport is both a highly practical and importantly symbolic item. It provides not only identification but also identity, allowing the bearer to travel to…
Claire RadcliffeMarch 7, 2018
In November 1924, Governor E. Lee Trinkle traveled to Florida to attend the annual Governors’ Conference. The Governors’ Conference was held in Jacksonville, Florida, on…
Renee SavitsJuly 20, 2016
We are now into the month of March, and winter continues to drag on. For those of you suffering from seasonal affective disorder, the Library…
Jim GreveMarch 6, 2013
Most of us know John Mitchell, Jr. as the tireless “fighting” editor of the Richmond Planet, a newspaper he ran for 40 plus years beginning in the mid-1880′s.…
Errol SomayMarch 1, 2013
