Darling Husband is a librarian.  Today he arranged for one of the Special Collections librarians to pull some random cool stuff to show us.  Our day was awesome.  But I took so many pictures and we saw so many neat things knocking around in the big city --far far away from our daily rural life, that I'm going to have to break everything up into a few blog posts.   To begin back in Special Collections: "Grandmother's Closet," pure book magic.  The entire book is meant to be viewed at once, through the keyhole in the front cover.  It was difficult to convey with photography.  (At least for me.)  But really cool to see.  We want to make such a book of our own, one day.

If you aren't married to a librarian you might not know this.  But all academic libraries have Special Collections, books and resources they never display.  You can call and ask to see what they've got.  I don't know why they never seem to say so, but most libraries even have staff just waiting to show off the collection.  Today was so unexpectedly inspiring, I'm thinking of hitting up the next university down the road and taking a group of homeschoolers along for the ride.