WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH DISPLAY and ...

... GREEN STUFF!

In honor of Women's History Month, the display case outside the Bullis Room is now full of books by women authors. Please be sure to stop by in the next couple of weeks, to see just a few of  over 250 books in the collection written by women.

And since some of us have been seeing little green stuff popping up out of the ground, it's time to once again take a look at the Bullis books on Spring bulbs as well as the general gardening books. You'll see some of these books in the display case in the months to come. In the meantime, you can stop by the Bullis Room and take advantage of the tried and true gardening advice in the books on Shelf FF (the center shelf, on your left as you enter the room.

And while in the Bullis Room, please be sure to sign the Guest Register that is on a table by the door. There's space for comments, too, and we'd love to see what books you found useful as well as other thoughts you'd like to share with us.

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Last month, Bulls Room volunteers talked about how to recognize and observe International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month (March). We decided to start by making a list women authors in the Bullis collection.

The spreadsheet is still in process and so far we have 245 items, which include well-known as well as lesser-known women authors. Here are some of the titles that have attracted our attention and are on our "must take a closer look" list:

Costumes of Colonial Times, Alice Earl (NY, 1894)

Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals, Clara Endicott Sears (Boston, 1916)

Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Ida Harper, (Ind., 1899)

Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon, Madam Junot (Washington, 1901)

Tales of New England, Sarah Orne Jewett (Boston, 1895)

Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ida Tarbell (NY, 1900)

Our next step is to display these books (and others) in the case outside the Bullis Room. We hope to have that completed tomorrow, so please stop by and see these books as well as others because they represent one of the many, many achievements of women in the past two centuries.