There’s a Waco landmark that I’ve been wanting DEAN WINCHESTER SUPERNATURAL Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus to visit for years.

No, it’s not Magnolia Market at the Silos from the interior CHIVAS DE GUADALAJARA DEPORTIVO JERSEY 2 Cover Samsung Galaxy SNOOPY I LOVE CANDY Cover iPhone 8 S10 Plus design TV show Fixer Upper (although I did enjoy a stop there recently.)

Instead, it’s a small library and museum near the Baylor University campus, free to visit, that is dedicated to the poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett ADIDAS ROSE VERA BRADLEY Cover iPhone 8 Cover KLAY THOMPSON Cover iPhone 8 Samsung Galaxy S4 Browning.

Heading home from a business trip one afternoon, I finally BRIAN URLACHER CHICAGO BEARS Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus had the right timing to investigate.

I already have some favorite Waco eateries, including Health Camp not healthy and not FENDER GUITAR Cover iPhone 8 a camp, it’s kind of a dive with fabulous burgers and milkshakes but it was food truck time.

At the corner of University Parks Drive and Franklin Avenue in downtown Waco, right along HAIL SATAN 666 Cover iPhone 8 the Brazos River, is a THE FLASH SUPERHERO Cover iPhone 8 small food truck area called “Chowtown.”

Two of the local food trucks parked by the Brazos River in downtown Waco, Texas (photo by Sheila Scarborough)

I decided on the Mad Hasher Waco truck, and like an idiot ordered way too much food. The loaded carrot MARC MARQUEZ MOTO GP Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and parsnip fries were an entree to themselves, but I also had to do justice UNDERTALE STRAIGHT OUTTA SNOWDIN Cover iPhone 8 to their enormous breakfast taco.

Yes, it was lunch, but whatevs; it’s always the right time for breakfast tacos.

Their buttermilk fried chicken sandwich made with a candied bacon and jalapeo waffle gave me JOHNNY DEPP FANTASTIC BEASTS Cover iPhone 8 pause, but I just couldn’t do it. wimp

Veggie HARLEY DAVIDSON HOT SKULL Cover iPhone 8 fries and breakfast taco at the Mad Hasher food truck, Waco TX (photo by Sheila Scarborough)

Waddling back to my car, I headed to the afternoon’s main objective the Armstrong Browning Library and Museum near Waco’s Baylor University campus.

The Library CLEVELAND INDIANS LANDSCAPE Cover iPhone 8 began as the personal collection of a Dr. A. Joseph Armstrong, who was head of Baylor’s English Department from 1912 1952 and a HAKUNA MATATA LION KING Cover Samsung Galaxy SUICIDE SQUAD HARLEY QUINN Cover iPhone 8 S10 Plus dedicated scholar of Browning’s work. His tireless gathering of memorabilia and his KATE SPADE NEW FASHION RYUKO MATOI Cover iPhone 8 WALL Cover Samsung Galaxy S4 fundraising efforts resulted in the world’s largest collection of Browning materials, housed in a SAILOR JERRY BEWARE Cover Samsung TORONTO BLUE JAYS NEBULA Cover iPhone 8 Galaxy S10 Plus stunning Italianate building.

To enter, you pull open giant THERE IS ONLY ONE FLASH Cover iPhone 8 heavy bronze doors that are modeled after the Ghiberti panels on the Baptistry doors in Florence, Italy.

Every room in the Library is graced with beautiful stained glass windows (62, to be exact) most of which include snippets of Browning JOKER ARTWORK Cover Samsung Galaxy S4 poetry, either Robert’s or Elizabeth’s.

The photo at the top of the post is accurately named the Treasure Room, and here is the research and study room.

Jones READY TO RACE KTM Cover iPhone 8 Research Hall in the Armstrong Browning Library near Baylor University, in Waco TX (photo by Sheila Scarborough)

I only had a little KATE SPADE BLAZE A TRAIL Cover Samsung Galaxy S4 over an hour, but there was so much to see that I couldn’t get through it all, and never even made it up to see the rooms on the third floor.

Thanks to donations and auction purchases of a huge variety of 19th century literature related items, you’ll see furniture, paintings and portraits, books, desk items, and cases full of emphemera like Elizabeth’s lace fingerless gloves:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s lace gloves at the Armstrong Browning Library HAIL SATAN 666 Cover iPhone 8 Waco TX (photo by Sheila Scarborough)

Here is the only working draft in the Library of the famous Sonnets of VERA BRADLEY BRAMBLE Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus the Portuguese:

Working draft of Sonnet 5 dated 1844 5, from Sonnets From THE PUNISHER ICON 2 Cover Samsung GIBSON GUITAR 2 Cover iPhone 8 Galaxy S10 Plus the Portuguese at the Armstrong Browning Library, Waco TX SYLVESTER AND TWEETY Cover iPhone 8 (photo by Sheila KEITH HARING 2 Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Scarborough)

The Library building itself is a work of art, with a story behind everything in every room, especially the stained glass windows.

As a Navy person, the one with the ship is of course my favorite, and includes a snippet from Robert Browning’s POWER RANGERS CLASSIC Cover iPhone 8 Epilogue.

“Greet the unseen with a cheer” stained glass window in the Armstrong Browning Library, Waco TX (photo by Sheila Scarborough)

This is still an active research facility, but my own early student days in libraries KIM KARDASHIAN SEXY SUPREME Cover Samsung Galaxy S4 came back with a rush when I saw their card catalog TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR Cover iPhone 8 cabinet, left as it was, unchanged since 1991.

Original card catalog for the Armstrong Browning Library in Waco, TX ORANGE GUITAR BASS AMP Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus (photo NBA LAKERS KOBE BRYANT Cover Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus by Sheila Scarborough)

A little sign on it reminds people that it is not accurate anymore, to use the University’s online catalog instead, HONDA CIVIC SI EMBLEM Cover iPhone 8 and tells you where the computer terminals are in the building.

Don’t miss the Garden of Contentment on one side of the building “celebrating a poet’s life and a professor’s dream.”…