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October 31: The Dark & Mysterious Places of St. Louis
August 26: The Legacy of Susan Blow
July 24: Celebrating Amelia Earhart Day
July 15: Remembering James E. Yeatman on National Give Something Away Day
June 24: A Vacation on the Rails
June 14: Juneteenth and Jackie
May 11: Mercantile Landmark Gets a Facelift
May 6: Travelers, Tracks & Tycoons Exhibition - Grolier Club, NYC
April 19: The Early St. Louis Glass Plate Negative Photograph Collection
April 14: The Mercantile Library Celebrates 175 Years at Gala
February 28: Gold Fever
February 7: The 210th Anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquakes
February 4: Exploring St. Louis' Icy Past
November 29: Celebrating National Model Railroad Month
November 16: National Button Day
November 6: Book Lovers Day
October 30: Celebrating the Spirit of Halloween with Edward Gorey
September 25: National One-Hit Wonder Day
September 13: Celebrating World Chocolate Day
August 31: Chasing the Big Boy
August 30: New Collections at the Pott Waterways Library
August 24: Remembering Captain Bill Streckfus
August 23: Missouri's 200th Birthday
July 29: Celebrating National Lasagna Day
June 28: Great Outdoors Month & Horace Kephart
June 21: Celebrating Juneteenth
June 16: Celebrating National Rose Month
June 11: Featured story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 28: National Inventors Month
May 25: Celebrating Wildflowers Month
May 14: The Mercantile Celebrates 175 Years - UMSL Daily
April 30: Celebrating Arbor Day
April 26: April Showers & Flood Research
April 22: English Language Day
April 20: National Volunteer Week
April 12: International Day of Human Space Flight
March 25: Celebrating Women In River History
March 22: Daffodil Day
March 17: St. Patrick's Day
March 14: Happy Pi Day!
February 22: Celebrating Washington's Birthday
February 14: Happy Valentines Day
January 20: James Polk and Inauguration Day
January 19: Master Poet of the Mysterious & Macabre
January 15: The New Orleans: The Steamboat that Unlocked the West
January 13: A Journey Down the Missouri with Frank Fiske
December 23: Railroads and Holiday Traditions
December 18: Winter Solstice & the Holidays
December 7: Waterways Innovation Changes the Course of American History
November 26: Thanksgiving Origins
November 23: Thomas Ridgeway Gould & The West Wind
November 11: Observing Veteran's Day
November 3: Getting Out the Vote!
October 30: The Full Moon on Halloween
October 23: Early-American River Superstitions
October 16: A Brief History of Presidential Campaigns & Waterways
October 13: The Story of Patience Worth
September 30: Apples in September
September 25: High Holy Days
September 21: International Day of Peace
September 17: Constitution Day
September 13: A Salute to Grandparents
September 12: National German Language Day
September 1: Celebrating September with Gustave Baumann
August 28: Anniversary of the March on Washington
August 24: Rudolph Ackermann, Cambridge and Oxford
August 20: Macrame and Handwashing on the Mississippi
August 18: Celebrating Couples Day
August 11: Beat the Heat: C'mon Along on the Mississippi!
August 3: National Watermelon Day
July 24: Baseball Returns to St. Louis
July 20: An Author and a Comet
July 14: Bastille Day: The Mercantile's Interest In All Things French
July 4: The Siege of Vicksburg In Newspapers
June 25: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Legacy of Little Shield
June 19: Celebrating Father's Day
June 18: The Emancipation Proclamation
June 16: Celebrating Flag Day
June 12: Frederick Douglass and the Great American Narrative
June 1: Welcoming June with Frederick Oakes Sylvester
May 22: A Virtual Stroll Through Springtime In Missouri
May 20: National Rescue Dog Day
May 15: Views of Hunter, KS from the Barriger Railroad Collection
May 8: Celebrating Mother's Day
May 5: Celebrating James Buchanan Eads
April 27: Happy 235th Birthday to John James Audubon
April 24: Celebrating Spring and Earth Day
April 20: National Library Week
April 17: The St. Louis Cardinals in the Globe-Democrat Archives
