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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

The Huntington has long offered classes and family programs for a variety of ages—from preschool series for ages 3 to 4 to after-school programs for ages 5 to 6 and Saturday workshops for ages 7 to 12.

One of the most popular Huntington exhibitions of the past decade was "The Bible and the People," which featured dozens of Bibles on view in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. Lori Anne Ferrell, co-curator of the 2004 exhibition, went on to publish a book of the same title in December 2008.

They call it "CSI: Miami," but they film it here. So you're probably no longer surprised when local people and places pop up on the screen—but it's still fun to have some advance warning. In last week's episode, it was Huntington docent Carol Black