The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/library/directors-corner/)
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.
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?
Some libraries have shelves of mysteries, and some are mysteriously haunted. In Connecticut, the most haunted library is in Deep River.
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.
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.
Recently, I was in Dublin, Ireland with my husband. We walked the same streets that Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and James Joyce walked.
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.
Dutch sailors ate so many dodos that the dodos became extinct. Will librarians also become extinct?
The glittering library which resides at 50 North Main Street could easily have been written up in Alistair Black’s book, “Libraries of Light.”
Jane Austen is wildly popular. Her six novels are rarely out of print.