W. 11th & Bluff

About Kate & Sarah    Kate and Sarah Faford-Johnson  love spending time outdoors and enjoy kayaking, hiking, and biking. They usually ha...

Earth Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of Apollo 17 (NASA) Wednesday, April 22 is the 50th annual celebration of Earth Day! Earth Day is a glob...

The Hour of Land : A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams stands a very good chance of being my 2...

Barkskins , the new, multi-generational epic by Annie Proulx , won't be for everyone. For one thing, it's over 700 pages long and co...

For the Great Reading Challenge, I’ve chosen to read a book over 100 years old. I read James Fenimore Cooper ’s The Pioneers in part becau...

I am woefully behind in my fiction reading, an unfortunate situation caused, in part, by a long detour into Nonfictionland. In an attempt to...

Off the coast of Italy, a company has created underwater greenhouses, using the sea to grow plants like basil and strawberries. Read more a...

Spring is finally on its way, and with the official change of season on March 20th, it's time to start planning your garden. Whether yo...

Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22nd. To celebrate the City of Dubuque and the Petal Project will host a free Sustainable Dubuque Trolley T...

I have a confession to make: I love the apocalypse. Not so much the event itself, or the events leading up to it, but what happens after...

Today is the 41st Earth Day, which was founded by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, and is today celebrated in 175 countries around the worl...

The name Stout in Carnegie-Stout Public Library commemorates Frank D. Stout who donated the land for our Library. Encyclopedia Dubuque lis...

From BookLetters: "On April 22, we celebrate Earth Day, an American tradition since 1969. Earth Day has evolved to include celebration...

The Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency (DMASWA) has a new free program to recycle compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). For more info...

Now that fall is in the air I am reminded to wrap up the Adult Summer Reading Program (SRP).   Looking back it was a great success.  The the...

The great picture by Mike Day on the front page of today’s TH and Erik Hogstrom’s article “Beetlemania” got me thinking about what resource...

2008 Flood Resource Center New 6/16/08 State of Iowa Iowa Road Closures, Travel Advisories and Maps Iowa 511 Traveler Information Flood Saf...

Registration has started for Carnegie-Stout Public Library's 2008 Adult Summer Reading Program, Grow Your Mind: Read Green, Think Green,...

In anticipation of tomorrow's visit by Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol , we compiled a list of some recently published nonfiction books on envir...

I checked out a remarkable movie from Carnegie-Stout Public Library this week, Fitzcarraldo , written and directed by German filmmaker Werne...