

Virginia Claire McGuire
Joined: Feb 20, 2013
Virginia C. McGuire is a part time reference librarian in Philadelphia. She is also a freelance writer specializing in real estate, architecture and gardening. She enjoys hunting for entertaining oddities on the internet and making friends on Twitter. Follow her @vcmcguire.




Little free libraries have sprung up all over the world in the last five years.
With their poofy crests and feathery feet, these glamorous chicken breeds are a little fancier than your average barnyard birds.
Special collections libraries are a strange and wonderful world, full of odd collections and even odder researchers. We chose a handful of our favorites.
On the 11th of every month, we publish a bunch of lists of 11. Virginia C. McGuire gets us started.
Books are beautiful in their own right, but these artists have managed to improve on perfection.
You walk into a coffee shop and look around. People of all descriptions are sitting at tables, reading the news, talking about the world, and drinking dark strong cups of coffee. Scenes like this play out in coffee shops all over the world in 2013, but th
Celebrate Canada Day by drinking as the Canucks do.
Although many of Canada's Nobel Prize laureates spent the bulk of their career elsewhere, we've complied a list of people with a strong connection to Canada who were awarded Nobel prizes in various disciplines.
Some might say that tree houses are just for kids, but the architects of these innovative homes might beg to differ.
Don't let Mother Nature have all the fun!
Diamond heists and stolen paintings might get more press, but historical documents tempt a certain kind of thief just as much.