The Pittsburg Camp County Public Library will be closed Friday, December 22nd- Tuesday, December 26th for Christmas. Please return items through book drop. Call (903)856-3302 to renew or reserve items with your name & account number. The Library will reopen Wednesday, December 27th @9:00 am. Have a safe & happy Holiday!
Editor’s note: A letter to the editor from eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon earned a quick response in the form of an unsigned editorial published Sept. 21, 1897. Veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the piece that has since become the most reprinted newspaper editorial in history. It has appeared, whole or in part, in dozens of languages in movies and books and on posters and stamps, among other places. It’s presented here in its entirety:
The annual Fairy Dust Princess Ball, hosted by CASA of Titus Camp and Morris Counties, will be held next month at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center. Tickets are now on sale.
For over ten years in the “BioTex” seminar at NTCC, honors students have experienced a November “email shootout.” This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly-poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize the elements of their Texas history research essays, to utilize crossover “analogs, (terms)” particularly from biology and other scientific fields, and to provide terse definitions of newly minted concepts.
