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It's not often that you come across an opportunity to have a hand in creating manuscript collections for The Huntington, but the Annenberg Community Beach House of Santa Monica has just the ticket.

With the temperature in the 80s, you might be pondering whether to come to The Huntington this weekend or head straight to the beach instead. If you come to the Library's West Hall, you'll be able to catch the exhibition "Blue Sky Metropolis" before it closes on Jan. 9

There is a certain predictability in the ways the gardens enchant visitors from season to season. And you can always count on visitors lining up to see the Gutenberg Bible or the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

A look back on the year of the Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

If you haven't completed your holiday shopping, you might consider buying a number of books that we covered in the blog this year, many of which are in stock at The Huntington's Bookstore & More. While some of the books came out before 2011, the conversation about them continues

Matthew Hersch, co-curator of the Huntington exhibition "Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California," was first drawn to the stars as a boy in the 1970s in Scarsdale, N.Y., where he got hold of books from the public library and read about astronauts