Environmental & Science eResources for April’s Earth Week

Guest post by Cap’n Cache. Updated 4/18/19 Ahoy me hearties! Did ye miss ol’ Cap’n Cache while I be gone sailin’ the seas? Well, I be back just in time to be tellin’ ye about library resources for Earth Week that be comin’ up this month. Yer 2017 Earth Week begins April 16 (that be …

Have You 3D Printed Yet?

Updated 5/2019 with Captain Cache’s Curiosities Podcast episode about 3D printing at the Libraries. On the second floor of the Old Town Library, tucked over by the computers and printers, sits a large complex looking machine that steadily toils nearly every day printing wondrous, and sometimes strange objects. It’s a machine for the makers, the …

April is National Poetry Month

Ahoy! Cap’n Cache reporting for National Poetry Month (aka April). Bein’ a man o’ the high seas, I don’t dabble much in the world o’ poetry, but I figured for this special month I’d check it out. National Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy o’ American Poets. Arr! It be the largest …

June Be Audiobook Month!

updated 6/13/19 Matey, did ye know June be National Audiobook Month? What a perfect time o’ year too, when people be roadtrippin’, an’ travelin’, an’ exercisin’. Ye can take an audiobook anywhere! Now, ye may be sayin’, “Captain Cache, I don’t own any audiobooks.” Don’t ye worry, me friend. Thanks to yer local library, ye have …

Captain Cache: New Years Arrr-ound the World

Updated 12/12/2018 with Captain Cache podcast episode.   Ahoy Mateys and a Happy New Year to ye! With the season’s cold and icy waters, I be hunkered down in me Cap’n’s quarters. In an attempt to be festive, I’ve been researchin’ new year’s around the world and have found some pretty interestin’ facts! Did ye …