Library News

The latest updates from PPL

10 Great Time Travel Stories – Part II

Last week we published Part I, featuring 5 classic time travel tales. These next five Time Travel books are more recent and anchor themselves in …

10 Great Time Travel Stories: Part I

Time travel has intrigued people for as long as, well, time. There are no hard and fast rules, but for over a hundred years writers …

What Is Modern? When Was Modern?

László Moholy-Nagy, cover for Qualitat photo review, 1926 Joost Schmidt, poster for a Bauhaus exhibition, 1923 Our exhibit, Portals, has prompted the following question about …

Providence 2050: Raymond Two Hawks Watson

As part of our Providence 2050: Visualize Tomorrow project, community activist Raymond Two Hawks Watson imagines how Rhode Island could become a future destination for …

LISTEN TO SOUNDS OF THE FUTURE FROM 1969!

Listen to what forward-thinking 1960s computer scientists created when people were first beginning to consider music created by, or with, computers. These selections come from …

Snaps from the Turbans to Tiaras workshop

Teens researching global images from the 1920s to inspire their own headdress creations. PPL Teen trying on a 1920s inspired headdress designed by Everett Hoag. …