by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 27, 2024 | GoWYLD, Homepage
With 2024 ending and 2025 beginning next week, many folks are contemplating changes they would like to make in the new year or setting goals they would like to achieve by this time next year. Why not make a resolution to learn something new with GoWYLD? With subject...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 26, 2024 | GoWYLD, Homepage
December 26 is National Thank You Card Day, a holiday of which the official origin is unknown, but fairly easy to infer. Being the day after Christmas, we can safely assume it has something to do with social conventions dictating that we should send a thank you card...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 24, 2024 | Homepage, People News
Have People News at your library? Send it to Christi Weinzierl at christi.weinzierl1@wyo.org. Travis Pollok recently celebrated his tenth anniversary with the Wyoming State Library and the State of Wyoming’s Administration and Information agency. “I feel...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 23, 2024 | Homepage, WSL Digital Collections Suite, WSL News
The Wyoming State Library will be closed Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas Day holiday. We will re-open on Thursday, December 26. Wondering what the perfect holiday decor is for Wyoming? We present to you the “Artificial Christmas Tree and Antler Apparatus”...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 23, 2024 | Homepage, WSL Digital Collections Suite
The holiday season is upon us and there is no better time to take a look back at Wyoming’s holiday history! The earliest mention of the jolly man in red appeared in the Christmas Eve issue of The Cheyenne Leader back in 1868 in a poem entitled Owed to Christmas...
