Tag Archive for ‘American Library Association’
Historical Libraries, Societies and Museums: “Beam me IN!”
“BEAM ME IN, SCOTTY!” Apologies to Captain Kirk and Star Trek. I know it’s really, “Beam me UP, Scotty.” For more than 20 years, I have been traveling the country, visiting museums, historical societies, bookstores, libraries and teacher conferences to share my love for history, geography and all the subjects I have covered in the [...]
Bloomsday (2011)
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . .” With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day –June 16 1904. That makes [...]
“Beam me IN, Scotty” –Library Visits with Author Kenneth C. Davis
AN OPEN LETTER TO LIBRARIANS— “BEAM ME IN, SCOTTY!” Apologies to Captain Kirk and Star Trek. I know it’s really, “Beam me UP, Scotty.” For more than 20 years, I have been traveling the country to visit libraries, bookstores, museums, schools and librarian conferences to share my love for history, geography and all the subjects [...]
Happy Birthday, Harper Lee
Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama –Nelle Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you only publish one book, may as well make it a good one. For Harper Lee it was To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), the story of Scout Finch, a girl growing up in a small Southern town. Scout [...]
“Sicko Ants on a Crucifix”
Censorship is riding high. It is once again as American as apple pie, assassinations and anti-immigrant vitriol.
