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Image by LivePict, via Wikimedia Commons The meaning of the word “library” has never been more ambiguous. When we can virtually carry library-sized collections of images, music, literature and reference data in our pockets, what are physical libraries...

Your TownNot a Story Book Spots could hold as any historic figure. Such Old-West cities as Deadwood Area as nostalgia and much charisma, and Tombstone sort the filthy backdrops for awful most passionate, and activities and mythological numbers from the...

A colorful case of the mosaic of influences that is art. “When a library is open, no matter its size or shape,” Bill Moyers wrote, “democracy is open, too.” A century and a half earlier, Thoreau extolled a different aspect of the library as a technology...

Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald left the prohibitionist America for wet Paris in the 1920’s and they both drank a lot. WINE, WOMEN AND SONG  was their motto and I am afraid ultimately wine got the best of Fitzgerald and shortened his career. Woody...

I had a love affair with New Orleans the moment I stepped onto her old crooked cobblestone roads, saw the gaslights dance on a moody, starless night, got pulled into an old blues bar by the crying of a trombone. I’ve gone back there time and time...