The New York Public Library, which has championed the written word for over a century, is celebrating the art of spelling the English language with the free popup display Spellbound: A Celebration of Spelling. The popup display is presented in honor of the 51st Annual New York Daily News Spelling Bee, which will be held at the Library for the first time this year.
The display will feature eight unique items spanning 200 years from the Library’s renowned research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Library for the Performing Arts and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The Library has also created NYPL's Surprisingly Tricky Online Spelling Bee for those who want to test their spelling acumen. Available at nypl.org/spellingbeequiz, contestants have ten seconds to select the correct spelling of ten exigent words. Exigent and acumen are not included.
