The graduating eighth-grade members of the Library Leaders Club at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School, were thanked for volunteering at the school’s library, and rewarded with special field trip to the New York Public Library to see the “The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.”

During the visit, the eighth graders viewed fascinating historical items taken from the NYPL’s centuries-spanning archives, including Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, cuneiform tablets thousands of years old, a lock of Beethoven’s hair, the first Gutenberg Bible brought to the Americas, Charles Dickens’ writing desk and the original stuffed animals that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

“This amazing group of eighth graders donated so much of their time to the Frost library, and it will not be the same without them next year,” library media specialist Anne Lotito-Schuh said.

Date Added: 7/11/2023