The county’s military history became richer for Harry Metzger just weeks before Memorial Day, when he read that 13 people asked to protect President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War were from Delaware.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Front-runner Mitt Romney won the Illinois primary with ease Tuesday night, defeating Rick Santorum in yet another industrial state showdown and padding his already-formidable delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Hundreds of area third grade students are getting the opportunity to experience local history through art as part of the Arts Castle’s latest exhibit.
One of the more recent additions to the arsenal of tools the Delaware County District Library has to help us fulfill our mission of being our community’s information provider is the Gale Virtual Reference Library. You can access this current, accurate and authoritative collection of online reference books by clicking on the icon located on the front page of the library’s website, delawarelibrary.org.
WASHINGTON — Count your blessings this Thanksgiving. It’s good for you. While it seems pretty obvious that gratitude is a positive emotion, psychologists for decades rarely delved into the science of giving thanks. But in the last several years they have, learning in many experiments that it is one of humanity’s most powerful emotions. It makes you happier and can change your attitude about life, like an emotional reset button.
NEW YORK (AP) — Determined never to forget but perhaps ready to move on, the nation gently handed Sept. 11 over to history Sunday and etched its memory on a new generation. A stark memorial took its place where twin towers once stood, and the names of the lost resounded from children too young to remember terror from a decade ago.
Book discussion groups have long been a staple of the Delaware County District Library, with multiple discussion scheduled each month at library locations. The staff at the Orange Branch Library, 7171 Gooding Blvd. is making a leap in another direction — a community film discussion!