Ruth E. Hendricks

Drive By Night Game at PNC Park

Ruth — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:31:32 +0000

Charlie (11) captured the night game as we entered the city Saturday night.

Pirates beat the NY Mets 9-0

Carnegie Library Extravaganza

Ruth — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:45:36 +0000

Summer Reading Program celebration,Sunday 12-5.

The grandkids decorated Eat’N Park smiley cookies.

We took home lots of free books!

The Frivk sponsored a mural

Kona Ice

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Eat’N Park Cookie

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Juggling Clown

Face Paint

You could sign up for Dolly Partons
Imagination Library program to get free books sent to your child birth to 5 years old

Andrew Cardnegie-a”library card

“Reading Comics is Reading”

Ruth — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:16:38 +0000

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) and Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University hosted the NCS Cartoonist Showcase Sunday August 8th in Columbus Ohio

Dav Pilkey, Raina Telgemeier, Jamar Nicholas, Jim Benton, Maria Scrivan

Laura, Dav Pilkey, Roy and Charlie

From Philadelphia

Dav Pilkey, Celebrating Neurodiversity and Creativity with the creator of “Dog Man” and “Captain Underpants”
Jim Benton, The Art of Being Funny
Maria Scrivan, Turning Awkward Moments into Awesome Stories
Jamar Nicholas, Heroes, Hamsters, and Big Problems
Raina Telgemeier, Drawing from Real Life

Jim Benton

Maria Scrivan

Jamar Nicholas

Baby Sitters Club graphic novel

Raina Telgemeier signs her book Expressing Feelings

Sparkly Pencils for Back to School

Ruth — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:47:34 +0000

Just for fun. Photos by granddaughters Maura and Anna from our FaceTime call. Maura added a bit of sparkly nail polish to the mechanical pencil clips.

Anna showed me Maura painting the clip with the sparkly nail polish.

Happy Birthday Lala

Ruth — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:35:06 +0000

Laura is celebrating her birthday Friday August 7th.

May your birthday be the start of a happy new year love, Ma

With her family on Roy’s 4th birthday August 1 2026

1984 First Birthday in Grafenwoehr Germany

Free to the People

Ruth — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:28:52 +0000

“

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.

It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

Andrew Carnegie

We love our library (ies) Thank you Andrew Carnegie

Same Scene Different Day

Ruth — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:53:27 +0000

And the tractor driver honked and waved as he raked the infield today

Ananda is fascinated with the tractor and construction vehicles.

Killer Heels Show August 2016

Ruth — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:57:02 +0000

From the archives

At the Frick Pittsburgh August 2016

KILLER HEELS

The Art of the High Heeled Shoe

Fido’s Footprints

Ruth — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:05:10 +0000

My sister spotted these footprints in concrete on our walk. Thanks Mary

Silent Sunday

Ruth — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:58:47 +0000

Photos by Mary and Prema on our drive out to Ohio Friday