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Last year both of our libraries received Picturing America grants.

Picturing America comes with a comprehensive package of materials that includes:
• Forty large, high-quality color reproductions of the selected masterpieces (24” x 36”)
• A comprehensive teachers resource book providing a wide range of ideas and background information to support educators using the works of art in core subject areas
• Additional resources and lesson plans available through the Picturing America Web site

These posters are available for classroom use.

This year the libraries each received a grant for the Picturing America bookshelf. The We the People “Picturing America” Bookshelf is the literary complement of NEH’s Picturing AmericaSM visual arts project. Instead of paint, marble, silver, or glass, words are the media used to portray significant themes in American history and culture. Readers are invited to steer their way across the continent by river with Lewis and Clark in 1802, travel the railroad with Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, or drive along the open highways with John Steinbeck and his dog Charley in 1960. Through the life and poetry of Walt Whitman emerge powerful images of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln; through the life and lens of Dorothea Lange we witness the impersonal forces and human faces of the Depression. more information

The library will be sponsoring events and contests throughout the year to promote these items.