Does Size Matter? »
By David Stilwill on Mar 13, 2008 in Featured, Libraries | 0 Comments
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
The Prairie Free Library - Prairie, ID
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Web Adventures - Curious Expeditions.Org »
By David Stilwill on Feb 14, 2008 in Global Travel, Libraries, Web Sites | 0 Comments
Stumbling about the long branching hallways of the internet I came across a site filled with wondrous images, tales of foreign lands, libraries stacked to the ceilings with books, cabinets filled with clocks, bones, mysterious paraphenalia and much more.
CuriousExpeditions.org is my kind of place. Their tagline states ‘Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past‘. Content, [...]
The Reading Life by Garrison Keillor »
By David Stilwill on Nov 30, 2007 in Author Feature, First Person Narrative, Libraries | 0 Comments
There is a nice essay in the Washington Post by Garrison Keillor revealing the genesis of his lifelong love of books.
“I plopped down and read them, one after the other. Nobody yelled at me, nobody told me to stop reading and sit with my feet up and not move….I chose to enter a privileged world [...]
