Director’s Corner
Warren Platner, The Architect of the Kent Memorial Library (1919-2006)
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The Kent Memorial Library is unique. It is the only free-standing public building designed by Warren Platner.
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Blood and Tears
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I recently read Sam Fuller’s account of how the library on 50 North Main Street came to be. The building’s inception was awash in what Sam called “blood and tears.”
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Librarian Spies?
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I have toted home a few books on spies for my husband which got me thinking. Many writers were spies – but were there librarian spies?
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Happy Birthday
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April is a busy literary month. It is National Poetry Month. It also contains National Library Week, National Bookmobile Day, Poem in Your Pocket Day, and a whole host of other literary holidays few people will celebrate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.