Celebrate Pride Month Through Poetry & Cinema

by Emilie Pichot, Humanities Department 

Celebrate Pride Month, which occurs each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, with us by digging into LGBTQIA+ materials in the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments. Check back all month for more recommended reading.

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Poetry

Cinema

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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide 4

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month!  Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Celebrate Asian and Pacific Islanders this month by learning about their contributions to music, visual arts, and fashion. Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America. Check out the poetry titles here, theatre and comedy titles here, and comics and graphic novels here

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Music

Fashion

Visual Arts

Religion, Literature, and Memoir

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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide 2

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America. Check out the poetry titles here.

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Humanities: Theatre

Humanities: Comedy

Have you checked out one of these titles? If so, let us know on social media and tag it #atthepratt.

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America.

Click on a cover to reserve your copy today!

Humanities: Poetry

Have you checked out one of these titles? If so, let us know on social media and tag it #atthepratt.

 

 

It’s Preakness Week!

Learn more about the history of Horse Racing in Maryland on Digital Maryland

“Back Again” Horse Race at Pimlico, May 1948

The Hays-Heighe House Horse Racing Photographs Collection contains one color and twenty-one black and white montages of race day photographs.  The photos were taken between 1934 and 1951 of prize-winning horses raised and trained at Prospect Hill Farm once owned by Robert H. and Anne Heighe of Harford County, Maryland.  That Farm is now the campus of Harford Community College.

Laurel Race Course, October 1951

 

 

Once the manor house for the Heighes, the Hays-Heighe House maintains the archives of Prospect Hill Farm.  They’ve also maintained archives of the thoroughbreds raised by Mrs. Heighe that raced at tracks in Maryland and as far away as Long Branch outside of Toronto, Canada and Tropical Park in Miami, Florida. The collection is also associated with two trainers prominent in Harford County and Maryland racing who worked for the Heighes, Jack Boniface and Joe Mergler.

Check out the photos and much more on Digital Maryland.