Here are some pictures of our Earth Day story time, when we cleaned up the Gulfport Temporary Library’s back and front lot. Afterwards, we had a lot of fun with an Earth globe purchased by the Mad Professor. The globe is actually a beach ball printed with NASA photos of the earth as seen from space. What’s really cool is when you expose the globe to full sun and then bring it to a dark room (we all went into the bathroom), spots where the city areas are (like coastal North and South America, China and Europe) light up from day-glow paint.






By the way, the black-eyed susans are thriving. Once they start blooming again, pictures will follow!

A Titanic Story Time

On Saturday 2 May 2009, we had a lot of fun with a Titanic story time in which we talked about that famous ship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after it hit an iceberg. There are many books available, and one of the ones we read was “Voyage on the Great Titanic: the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady,” about a young girl who survived the ship’s sinking.

Below are is a photo of the model the Mad Professor built of the Titanic, which took some (count ‘em) 8 months to build altogether. The model is currently on display at the library, and if you ask nicely, Mr. Geoff might let turn the Titanic’s lights on!



Mr. Geoff loves to make models (he’s been making them since he was 10 years old), and future story times may include the following:


Santa Maria



Revolutionary-era British sloop,



an ancient Egyptian boat


and a shrimp boat.


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