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Below are previous editions of the Wise Guide, cataloged each month when the new edition is published.

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002


December collage

December 2006
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus . . . How High Can A Nine-Banded Armadillo Jump? . . . Come On And Hear Alexander's Ragtime Band . . . Carry Nation ... First Mother Against Drunk Driving . . . You’re Supposed To Steep Tea In Boiling Water . . . Take 5 . . . In The Nation's 'Pleasure Grounds'


November collage

November 2006
A Bard In The White House . . . Art of War . . . No Stuffing For Me, Thanks! . . . Dr. Evil's Lair? No, It's The Library's . . . Y'all Come Back Now, Y'Hear? . . . Who Celebrated the “First Thanksgiving”? If You Guessed “Plymouth Colonists,” You Might Be Surprised . . . Voices From the National WWII Reunion


October collage

October 2006
Cast Your Ballots . . . Trick ... or Treat . . . Ode to Autumn . . . Letters About Literature . . . A-B-C ... Easy As One, Two, Three . . . A Library Mission to Iraq . . . On The Campaign Trail


September collage

September 2006
Author! Author! . . . Have You Been to Yoknapatawpha County? . . . Personal Papers Revealed! . . . First In Flight . . . . An Oft-Photographed Photographer . . . She Wrote the Most Famous 'Hymn' of the Civil War . . . Some People Call It 'Organized Mayhem.' Others Call It 'Football'


August collage

August 2006
The Master of Calligraphy . . . A Garden of Books at the Mall . . . Did Jefferson Scream for Ice Cream? . . . A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery . . . 'The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty' . . . 'Mr. Watson Come Here' . . . Game, Set, Match! The First African American to Win Wimbledon


July collage

July 2006
Military Intel . . . Very Dry Years . . . Great (Musical) Conversations . . . Mapping L.A. . . . 'How About That!' . . . Planning Your Vacation? . . . A Sneeze of Historic Proportions


June collage

June 2006
All That Jazz! . . . Show Me The Money! . . . He Was As Strong As A Bull Moose . . . Who Was Anacreon...And Why Do We Care? . . . In The Footsteps of Marco Polo . . . 'Bound for Glory' . . . Honor They Father...At Least Once A Year


May collage

May 2006
That'll Be the Day . . . Trial in Iraq . . . A Rare Black-and-White of A Colorful Figure . . . Bringing in The May . . . Let the Journey Begin . . . It Could Have Caused "The Greatest Chaos in America" . . . The First Woman to Run for President...50 Years Ago?


April collage

April 2006
'My Dear President' . . . Supporting the Rule of (Afghan) Law . . . Who's the Cat That Won't Cop Out When There's Danger All About? . . . Finding New Treasures . . . Lyrical Legacy . . . She Sat Down for What She Believed . . . A Cartoonist Who Came in from the Cold


March collage

March 2006
Fine Composer . . . A Library for the World . . . Is This a UFO? . . . He Wrote the Book on Tilting at Windmills . . . March Madness . . . It's a Dud! . . . A Rite of Spring


February collage

February 2006
An Unenviable Situation . . . Buried Treasures . . . Saving "Rocky Horror" ... And Other Classics . . . He Had The Write Stuff . . . "Straight, No Chaser" . . . One Day Her Prince Did Come . . . He Bought a Dismal Swamp


January collage

January 2006
A New Theatrical Release . . . Portraits of the Civil War . . . The Rarest of the Rare . . . The Latest Living Legends . . . Manuscripts From Mali . . . Granting Copyright . . . He Had A Very Powerful Dream ... And Shared It With All Americans