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Hey, Kiddos! It's time for DIY with DPPL!

 This week, Ms. Becky will show you how to make a zine.

While supplies last, come to DPPL and pick up the materials you need to design and make your own zine using magazines and washi tape.

Then watch a step by step video on how to create a masterpiece from all the supplies!

Ages 5 and up.

In the March edition of the Des Plaines Memory Newsletter, it's Spring(ish). And this years, as in years past, it's almost time to vote in Des Plaines.

Plus MORE new features on the Des Plaines Memory website; Des Plaines gets artsy; history-related Zoom events; and more!

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The last year has been difficult for those with a passion for travel.

If you're like us you are hoping that day comes SOON!

In the meantime, DPPL offers many ways you can stoke your wanderlust and make plans while you wait.

Two of the best: 

Read travel books and watch travel videos on Kanopy.

Continue Reading "Two Ways to Feed Your Wanderlust at DPPL" →

For my first Dungeons & Dragons campaign, I played a halfling wizard librarian who consistently carried at least 13 books in her pack.

Her most devastating moment in the campaign was when a magical scroll burst into flames in front of her eyes before she had the chance to fully read it.

In honor of her, and in honor of our upcoming virtual Teen D&D one-shot campaign hosted by Pastimes Comics where we cover a full story in just 2.5 hours (Grades 7-12 can sign up here!), I’ve put together a list of YA reads for all of the classic D&D classes.

Take a look and see if you agree or disagree with your recommended read!

Continue Reading "What YA Book should you read based on your D&D Class?" →

Mail.

There is something sublime in its randomness, its supreme ability to surprise.

Mail is the completion of an event, an act.

Someone put forth an effort to send something and the delivery to your mailbox is the final step, the culmination of a timeless method of communication.

It’s a concept similar to the light of stars, but in a different scope.

Every birthday card, holiday melange of pictures of relatives, or a mere note sent by a treasured friend: all are the representations of someone else’s present, now a few days in the past.

Continue Reading "Surprise, Discovery, and Books!" →