We’re back in Connecticut for this month’s library post, visiting The Hagaman Memorial Library in East Haven, CT. As I wrote last month, one of the big impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on my reading and working life… Read More ›
One of the things I’ve missed the most during this pandemic is going to the library. Earlier this week, it hit me that other than the months I was in Marine Corps boot camp, this is the longest I’ve gone… Read More ›
Last Monday I wrote about how writing a weekly blog post might keep me focused on what I want to read and help avoid shiny-new-book-syndrom. As I was still suffering from the mighty book hangover that Middlemarch gave me, I… Read More ›
“No name in the American poetical world is more firmly established than that of Fitz-Greene Halleck.” — Edgar Allan Poe I first wrote about Fitz-Greene Halleck back in April, which you can read here. Halleck hailed from Guilford, CT,… Read More ›
Connecticut’s newest bookstore celebrated its grand opening this past weekend. They had the ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday. I stopped in on Saturday to have a browse and congratulate the owners, the mother and daughter duo of Karen Opper and… Read More ›
Have you heard of Fitz-Greene Halleck?
He was known as America’s Byron.
You’d think with a weighty title like that most English majors would know about him.
I hadn’t heard of him until I moved to Guilford, CT and started digging around in the library for some local literary history.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a photo taken inside of a library must be worth at least a million words. This photo is my contribution to #WordlessWednesday. Or shall we say, Nearly Wordless Wednesday? (I’m looking… Read More ›