The weather is turning cold. More and more of us are returning inside, lighting fires to warm our bodies and reading new books to warm our minds. Warm your sweet tooth as well with this recipe for Vanilla-Peppermint Hot Chocolate. Plus, check out [...]
Winter is here, and what better way to mark the season than by making these beautiful, festive crafts! You can keep these scrap fabric decorations for yourself, or give them as a gift. Let yourself get creative...if you don’t have scrap fabric, [...]
Do you ever wonder what is special about November besides Thanksgiving and Black Friday? It is a month that feels like a stepping stone from Halloween to Christmas and always seems to fly by. Well, there in fact have been many interesting and [...]
Most of you, our customers, have never heard about the Novelist database we have on our CCPL website. This is a database that librarians use to help you find books to read. It might seem like magic how we can listen to you tell [...]
Are you an art lover or even an artist yourself? If so, you have something in common with some of CCPL’s finest. Join us for our Fall 2021 Staff Art Exhibit! This quarter we’re featuring all 3D works-- from ceramics to a mannequin [...]
The area we call home today was first populated by Indigenous peoples from the Algonquin, Iroquois, and Siouan Nations. Among these groups, the Piscataways (also known as Conoy) were prevalent in the Chesapeake region at the time of European contact. Today, Piscataway Peoples [...]
In celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a writing contest will be held at the La Plata Library throughout the month of November!On November 1, participants will begin working toward a goal of writing a 50,000 word novel by 11:59pm on November [...]
New DVD Releases In 1888 a Frenchman named Louis Le Prince directed the very first motion picture. It was made with 11 clips and played for approximately 10 seconds. This short film, entitled “Roundhay Garden Scene'', merely showed a man riding a horse. [...]
Join CCPL this year by celebrating the Maryland STEM fest, by participating in one (or all!) of CCPL’s STEAM Fest programs, taking place between October 15th - November 14th. What is the MD STEM Fest? (From the MD Stem Fest Webpage) The Maryland STEM Festival [...]
