The Community College Humanities Association teamed with Miz Ryan and the Library of Congress for Poetry for the Mind's Joy.
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Books can be borrowed from the program's library -- the only one in the community -- and there are nearly 300 Internet-accessible laptops that were donated through the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child.
Stites said Monticello's keepers don't want to get caught up in the political debates about gun control, but there is a lot of community interest in Jefferson's real and falsely attributed quotations, so Jefferson Library researchers provide resources based on searches through electronic and physical archives of Jefferson's writings.
He also stressed the value of community services, such as the local library, and warned that people should "think twice before dismantling what's already there".