YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Before you venture out this summer to enjoy some of our many wonderful national parks, we invite  you to take a look through this item from the Bullis archives:

General Information Regarding Yellowstone National Park:

Season of 1918

Written  by the National Park Service, United States

Published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, 1918

This 82-page booklet can give you an interesting perspective about Yellowstone - the way it was a century ago compared with what it is today.   And you'll  be able to better appreciate the wonders in the park's almost 3,500 square miles full of lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges in the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

(Have a safe trip!)

FLAG DAY and OUR WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

The next time you are in the library, you'll want to spend some time looking at the display in the case outside the Bullis Room. This month, the display showcases Bullis books that pertain to Flag Day and our War of Independence.

Here is a partial list of those on display:

The Pictorial History of the American Revolution;

with a sketch of the early history of the country.

By Robert Sears (1810-1892)

      The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces;

during the war which established the independence of this country, and

first president of the United States

By John Marshall (1755-1835)

Published by Crissy & Markley, and Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1850

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution;

or illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, 

and traditions of the war for independence

By Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)

Published by Harper & Brothers, 1855

The books will be back in the Bullis Room, available for reading, in mid-July.  So please plan to visit the Bullis Room to take a closer look at some of them. We especially recommend The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution as a reminder of what our military men and women did for us during that war as well as all the wars that have followed.