Last week Laura and I were looking to go on a day drive. I also wanted to visit a new to me library and since most libraries in Connecticut are still either not open or running on limited hours due… Read More ›
Connecticut
Library Stop: Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, Old Lyme, CT
Yesterday I picked up items on hold at the public library in Old Lyme, Connecticut. I’m happy to introduce you to the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library. It was built in 1898 and has had some additions over the… Read More ›
Library Visit: Hagaman Memorial Library
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 ›
Library Visit: Essex Library Association
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 ›
Surprised by Patroclus
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 ›
Visiting Fitz-Greene Halleck Monuments
“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 ›
New CT Bookstore: That Book Store LLC
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 ›
Fitz-Greene Halleck – America’s Forgotten Superstar Poet
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…
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 ›
“Set Yourself Free” at Whitlock’s Book Barn in Bethany, CT
I recently visited Whitlock’s Book Barn with my Book Cougars buddy Emily. This was a first visit for both of us. Whitlock’s has been in business since 1948. Meg, the manager, told us a little history of the place. There’s… Read More ›