Remember how I told you we were losing two of our favorite pubs to real estate developers? Well, in both cases, the plans have apparently changed or been delayed. I heard an unconfirmed rumor that the one already closed is due to reopen once again as a pub, and apparently the development plans were rejected for the other one, so the owners have to go back to the drawing board. Meanwhile it remains open. (In fact, Dave, our coworker Gordon and I went there last night.) So that's a bit of good news, at least temporarily.
In the news: Did you hear the story about the Milwaukee concert master who was attacked with a stun gun in a parking lot by two thieves who made off with his Stradivarius? What is the world coming to? Unbelievable.
The weeding of our library bookshelves continued yesterday. Throughout this process I have claimed nothing for myself -- to be honest, most of these books no one would really want -- but yesterday we discarded a slim book of Eudora Welty's photographs from rural Mississippi during the depression. (You can see some of the photos here. Apparently they're in the state archives.) The library has had the book since 1972, and it's been checked out five times, most recently in February 1980. Clearly it is no longer being used. Anyway, once the librarians made the decision to discard it, I grabbed it -- with the boss's permission, of course.
(Photo: Produce truck paint job by Elmo, Maida Hill.)
Library work sounds appealingly methodical, even meditative. This is probably hysterically off base give those hopped up kids!
ReplyDeleteSome things are worth keeping. Pubs and slim volumes of Eudora Welty's photographs! Glad both have gotten reprieves.
ReplyDeletewhat a great opportunity to get some unusual books. I've quit acquiring books. the library is close and will request a book from a neighboring library if they don't have it.
ReplyDeleteI had a book of Eudora Welty's photos when I was in grad school: I justified the purchase because I was doing some sort of class presentation on Welty, and I wanted to talk about the visual imagery in her fiction. I basically argued that she wrote like a photographer, capturing a "portrait" of whatever she described, and I used the book to illustrate my point.
ReplyDeleteI no longer have the book, though. It got jettisoned in one of countless moves.
I love how you adopt the lost and forgotten books!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad for the pub reprieve! Maybe they'll both make it after all...
ReplyDeleteI just finished listening to a book (one from Ellen's fall book list - Life After Life) that I might actually purchase in actual paper. First none electronic book purchase in forever. But sometimes you just need the paper...
Have I ever mentioned that you have the best post titles? You do.
ReplyDeleteHappy year of the Green Wood Horse. Get ready to giddyap. It will be an active year.
I'm jealous of your Eudora Welty acquisition --
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