Happy New Year! Our first story for Phase II of the Willa Cather Short Story Project is “Lou, The Prophet.” Cather was nineteen when this story appeared in the October 15, 1892 edition of The Hesperian, the University of Nebraska’s… Read More ›
Ernest Hemingway. Where was he born? If your answer is Oak Park, IL, you’d be wrong. At least according to the Town of Cicero, Illinois. The first time I noticed Cicero claiming ownership of Hemingway was sometime in the 1990s…. Read More ›
Here we are at our last, but certainly not least, library post of the year. The Rathbun Free Memorial Library is sister to last month’s featured library, the East Haddam Free Public Library (click here to check out that post)…. Read More ›
Starting January 2021 Get ready, Cather enthusiasts! After wrapping up Phase I in September 2020, Phase II of the Willa Cather Short Story Project will kick off in January 2021. The fortytwo (42!) stories in this phase span from 1892,… Read More ›
Last weekend we made a delivery to a friend who lives in Moodus, Connecticut. Moodus, population 1,413 per the 2010 census, is a village in the town of East Haddam (population 9,126). I looked up the origin of the name… Read More ›
Hello, Friend! It’s been a while since I’ve written here — almost a month! Usually, I aim to post at least once a week, but November was a busy month and a special project pulled a lot of my attention…. Read More ›
Harriet Welles Turner Burnham (1856-1931) left money for the creation of the Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, CT. Enjoy this photo essay of the library’s external architecture.
“No one will ever know the strength of the winds in the Great Hurricane of 1938, because they destroyed every instrument designed to measure them.” — R.A. Scotti, Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 Like a lot of folks,… Read More ›
This month’s library post features the South Glastonbury Public Library. Regular readers of this blog may remember that last month I shared photos of the East Glastonbury Public Library. When you see this sign on the main thoroughfare, obey that… Read More ›
Thank you! Well, here we are at the end of Phase One of the Willa Cather Short Story Project. Thank you to everyone who has participated over the last twenty months! Some folks like Kate and Robin have read along… Read More ›
I managed to read four 400+ page books for Sue of Book By Book’s Big Book Summer Reading Challenge.