As a gentleman that recommends things, my priority is to recommend great stuff, but given the angle I’m working it does help when the stuffs’ creators are fine folks. Fortunately, there are enough great writers who qualify as gentlefolk to keep …
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I love lists. I love reading them, making them and crossing things off of them. Apparently I am not alone, as every magazine and media outlet has published lists of recommended summer reading. We library folk also have plenty of …
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I used to spend my days underground, working for a company that manufactured precision measuring instruments. To achieve a stable environment, they built their facilities inside a cave. The environment added an element of otherness to a routine office job. …
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My grandfather, who passed away in 2009, was attached to an infantry unit that served in a support role during the Second World War. He was a combat engineer who would have taken part in the Normandy Invasion (and most …
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Don’t you hate the doldrums? That awful time of year between the NFL draft and preseason games. Sure, there are other sports to watch. Baseball is heating up with the All-Star break approaching, the NBA and NHL will crown a …
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The 2013 One Read book is “The Ruins of Us” by local author Keija Parssinen! Each year as part of this community-wide reading program, the public helps choose a single book that we then invite everyone to read. Pick up your …
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