Director’s Corner
Mad as a March Hare
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Do you know that March 25 was once the start of the New Year? Julius Caesar abolished the complicated Roman calendar and created a new one.
Director’s Corner
Love in the Library
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Love is all around me since my daughter got engaged on New Year’s Eve. We have visited wedding venues, tasted food, kissed and sighed over happily ever after.
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“Please look after this bear. Thank you.”
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This bear is Paddington, whose story started on Christmas Eve in 1956, at Selfridges in London. Michael Bond, searching for a present, pitied a forlorn toy bear sitting alone on a shelf and took it home.
Director’s Corner
The Politics of Cookbooks
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Politics and food go hand-in-hand. Do you remember Clinton’s fast food hamburgers, Bush’s distaste for broccoli, and cookie recipes from candidates’ wives?
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Haunted Libraries
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Some libraries have shelves of mysteries, and some are mysteriously haunted. In Connecticut, the most haunted library is in Deep River.
Director’s Corner
Racists
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” and other unpalatably racist comments. For this, the American Library Association dropped her name from their children’s award, which was begun in 1954.
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The Fallout
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Despite Mr. Trump’s recent meeting with Kim Jong-un, the threat of nuclear war lingers in our minds, as it did during the Cold War.
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Walking the Streets of Dublin
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Recently, I was in Dublin, Ireland with my husband. We walked the same streets that Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and James Joyce walked.
Director’s Corner
The Short on Short Stories
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Traditional modern short stories were published in the early 1800s in the United States. Shortly afterward, in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post appeared, one of the most widely circulated magazines.
Director’s Corner
The Times, They are A-Changing
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Dutch sailors ate so many dodos that the dodos became extinct. Will librarians also become extinct?