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Pop Lloyd was a beloved baseball player who was born in Palatka. We even have our own little league named after him! I am working on producing a series of trifold static displays to share information in our libraries about prominent African Americans in our community, because although almost half of our population is African…

Former city commissioner and prominent citizen of Palatka, Mary Jane Lawson Brown, contacted me about helping her with a history project involving making a booklet for her grandparents who opened the first African American funeral home and whose grandmother became the first African American licensed to perform funerals in the state of Florida. Though we…

During COVID, our library continued to provide storytimes through short videos. It was my duty to learn to produce these videos, filming myself for children’s storytimes at first, then my coworkers in the Youth and Family department. While I was glad to get to do a tabletop RPG/D&D video that was filmed as a Zoom…

Though I’ve used PowerPoint for a long time, it was an intriguing thought to use it as design software. For this project I used PowerPoint to design a large, banner-sized poster presenting a timeline of a local landmark, the Bronson-Mulholland House, that I hope the Putnam County Historical Society can use somewhere in the house…

I feel like I’m coming into things a bit sideways, since I already have six years of experience behind me that’s shaping what I know. In a way I have to figure out how to put aside what I’ve learned in order to ensure that my mind is open to learning the ‘proper’ way that…

“First Day of Class” jitters and thoughts.