Watch, Read, Listen

Most people are familiar with the activities of a public library, those vital institutions that lend books, videos, music, and more to visitors. But what goes on in a library that isn't open to the public?

"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting" is a jewel of an exhibition that is about to get even more lustrous.

A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes, also known as the Bay Psalm Book, the first complete book printed in English in the British North American colonies, will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 26.

What is your connection to California's missions? Did they inspire the style of house you live in? Do they symbolize steadfast faith? Do they conjure up an idyllic early California yielding bountiful produce from a smog-free landscape?

In his address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln evoked the memory of 1776. Few, if any, in the audience had been alive at the time of the American Revolution, but Lincoln knew the power of that Glorious Cause

I waited 49 years to see this. When I was 26, one of my best friends from high school introduced me to orchids. While visiting Gary at his parents’ home one day in 1964, I saw some unusual flowers blooming in the oak trees

Early in the Civil War, abolitionist Frederick Douglass urged Abraham Lincoln to allow black men to serve in the Union Army. "Men in earnest don't fight with one hand, when they might fight with two," he wrote in a controversial article in September 1861.

As you enter the Library's Main Hall and walk straight ahead, one of the first things you'll see is a familiar treasure underneath a Plexiglas sign reading "A Landmark in Printing." The Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1455) anchors one of 12 sections in "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library,"