Mateys, we be drawin’ close to the end o’ football season. The super bowl be right ’round the corner. Pretty soon, we’ll be cheerin’, shoutin’, eatin’, laughin’, and all sorts o’ merriment. Football be not a traditional pirate sport, but I’ve grown to like this particular American pastime, so I looked into its origins usin’ …
Musicians, take note. You probably spend much of your day thinking about music, listening to music and creating music. As with any creative pursuit, you need a lot of inputs to generate new outputs. That’s why the folks at Cohere Bandwidth in Fort Collins spent an afternoon sorting through the online library resources. Here are …
The Do-It-Yourself Library- Have you recently biked around Fort Collins and noticed what looks like extra-large birdhouses in people’s yards and wondered what they were? If you got close enough, you saw that these small structures are full of books, and that the books are all free. These mini-libraries are part of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) …
History facts wit’ Captain Cache Yesterday it be cold and rainy, and I was huddled below deck in the Reading Rodger. It be a perfect day for researchin’ I thought, so I fired up me computer and navigated to the Answer Cache under the Research Tab of the Poudre River Libraries website. There I were, …
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Fort Collins Happy birthday to you FC150. Sounds like a lower division college course doesn’t it? FC-150, History of Fort Collins from 1864 to present. Close, but this “course” doesn’t cost any money and won’t earn you college credit. What it will do is …