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National Poetry Month Comes to Our Town

A line from TS Elliot’s “The Wasteland” describes April “as the cruelest month,” but the Academy of American Poets has gentled April’s reputation by designating it as National Poetry Month

Libraries: Eighth Wonder of the World

I believe that the miracle of libraries is that they are based on the best of human nature. Libraries exist because we believe in the human qualities of trust, unselfishness, responsibility, curiosity, intellectual freedom, service to others, access to learning for all, creativity, and sharing the delight found in exploring ideas.

Old Enough for Catcher in the Rye

If a pollster or market researcher were to solicit my opinion of the greatest invention in human history, I would answer “the library.”