EXPLORING IN THE BULLIS ROOM

Yep ... that's what Bullis volunteers (and some visitors) have been doing this week: exploring the Bullis Room shelves for books about explorers and their discoveries.  Being that Columbus Day is tomorrow, it seemed a good and right thing to do.


And what did we find? Here are a few for your reading pleasure and information:

The Discovery of America: 

With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

Author: John Fisk (1842-1901)

              Published by:  Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1892

Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition 

As Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long

Author:  Richard W. Bliss; Compiled by: Raymond Lee Newcomb

Published by:  American Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1882

Columbus and Columbia;  A Pictorial History of the Man and the Nation,

Embracing a Review of  Our Country's Progress ...

Authors:  James W. Buel  (1849-1920);   John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900);

Benjamin Butterworth (1837-1998);    James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893)

Published by: Caie,  Cincinnati, 1892

Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians

Edited by: Mary Gay Humphreys

Published by:  C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913

We actually found a total of 35 Bullis  books telling of discoveries in the Amazon, Jerusalem,  Argentina, Paraguay, China, Nippur, the Nile,  Equatorial Africa, Siberia, and Scandinavia (to name a few),  

So ... tomorrow is a holiday and many of us have the day off work -- but Macedon Public Library will be  open.  Please consider stopping by and spending part of your day exploring the Bullis Room for yourself.