April 22nd is Earth Day!

Mobile Bay at Fairhope
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Alabama State Parks

Alabama's Anti-Litter Site

Clean Water Future

Earth Charter Initiative

Earth Day Network

Earth Island Institute

Ebsco's GreenFile

Keep Alabama Beautiful

Mobile Baykeeper

National Park Week

Nature Conservancy

National Haiku Poetry Day

April 17th is National Haiku Poetry Day The traditional form for Haiku is as follows: a 3-line poem with 5, 7, and 5 syllables per line. An old silent pond; A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again. -Basho Haiku Foundation Haiku Generator Haiku Syllable Counter History & Artistry of Haiku

(click to enlarge) Matsuo Basho Greatest Master of Haiku

National Library Week, April 4th-10th

In honor of National Library Week,
Coastal Alabama Libraries will forgive
all fines for overdue books or videos
returned during the month of April.

April is National Poetry Month

display by DeeDee Baggett (click to enlarge)

Academy of American Poets Bartleby Great Books Online Modern American Poetry National Poetry Month Poem Generator Poetry Center Poetry Daily Poetry Foundation Poetry Society Poetry Society of America Rhyme Zone Sonnet Project

The Purple Butterfly

 

When visiting a hospital maternity or neonatal ward, if you see a
purple butterfly on a baby's crib, it represents a baby that was part 
of a multiple pregnancy from which not all of the babies survived. 

For more information, please visit the Skye High Foundation.

Spring into Reading!

Book Nook display
by DeeDee Baggett

 

March 20th is World Storytelling Day!

Kathryn Tucker Windham
Alabama's Favorite Storyteller

Art of Storytelling Kathryn Tucker Windham Kathryn Tucker Windham (ADAH) Kathryn Tucker Windham Audio Clips Kathryn Tucker Windham - In Memory Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum National Storytelling Network Southern Order of Storytellers Story Corps TED Talks on Storytelling Tell-A-Tale View from the Porch: Southwest Alabama World Storytelling Cafe Special thanks to Patsy Bennett and Deborah Robinson at the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum & Library for their valuable suggestions and assistance!

Brewton Campus Blood Drive

Donate Blood and get a 

Tie-Dye T-shirt & a $10 eGift Card!

Brewton Campus on the Big Red Bus

March 18 - 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

To schedule an appointment: 

https://donor.oneblood.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/1060946.

Women's History Month

Convention on Women's Rights Female Nobel Laureates Gifts of Speech International Women's Day  National Women’s Hall of Fame Women in Science Women Working Women’s History Women's History Month Women's History Sourcebook

(click to enlarge) One Woman: a song honoring Women

March is National Reading Month

Read an E-Book Week (1st-7th)

Read Across America Day (2nd)

World Storytelling Day (20th)

World Folktales & Fables Week (21st-27th)

Towns of Coastal Alabama

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Gilbertown Blood Drive

 Wednesday, April 7th

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the Bloodmobile

at Calvary Baptist Church
(113 Pickens Ave, Butler, AL)

To schedule your appointment visit:

www.bloodhero.com
(Sponsor Code: CoastalAlabama)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Book Nook in Leigh Library
designed by DeeDee Baggett

 

Black History Links

African American Life & History African American Literature Book Club African Americans at War Black Facts Online Black History Biographies Black History Pages Black History Poems Black Past Guide to Black History History Makers Museum of the African Diaspora National Museum of African American History & Culture Quilts of Gee's Bend

Quilters of Gee's Bend

Black History Month

Leigh Library displays by DeeDee Baggett

(click photos to enlarge)

February is Black History Month

Lincoln Normal School  established in 1867 in Perry County :   moved to Montgomery in 1887 :  renamed Alabama State University in 1969.

Alabama's  Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alabama A&M University Alabama State University Concordia College (closed) Miles College Oakwood University Selma University Stillman College Talladega College Tuskegee University

Happy Birthday Dr. King!

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Civil Rights Memorial Dr. King on Biography.com Encyclopedia of Alabama Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence I Have a Dream speech King Center (Atlanta) Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial  National Historical Park Selma to Montgomery March

January in the Library

January 2nd is National Science Fiction Day January 23rd is National Handwriting Day
(display by DeeDee Baggett in Leigh Library)

Welcome to Spring Term!

Book Nook

(displays by DeeDee Baggett)

New Year's Resolutions

Merry Christmas from Coastal Alabama Libraries!

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Christmas Corner in Leigh Library
(display by DeeDee Baggett)