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The dining room of Poppy & Co. Café in downtown Philipsburg feels like the set of a TV show: restaurant owner Jenny Horton greets her regulars by name, often with a wink, some friendly teasing, and a hug.
“It’s definitely family-oriented,” Horton says. “We yell at our customers – I think they like that. We give them a hard time, ask them where they’ve been if they haven’t been here for a while. We know everybody by heart. We have everybody’s phone number, just in case they’re not here for a couple of days; we worry about them. We call, we check on them, we take them dinners, we even take them to their doctor’s appointments. I mean, we go a little bit above and beyond for our customers, but they have our back as much as we have theirs.”
This blog post was written by
Jennie Horton, a 2020 Librarian-in-Residence in the Serial and Government Publications Division.
Winter is in full swing! The season’s shimmery first snow is always beautiful and exciting, but what about after the magic wears off? Icy temperatures, blustery winds, and inches upon inches of snow! This week, we look back on some of the nation’s biggest blizzards in history as reported by America’s newspapers.
“Blizzard was King,”
The Sun (New York, NY), March 13, 1888.
On March 11, 1888, a heavy rainstorm turned to snow which lasted three days. The Mid-Atlantic United States was covered in nearly three feet of snow halting trains, causing traffic accidents, and severing telegraph wires. Even the New York Stock Exchange couldn’t endure the Great Blizzard of 1888!