Noah Webster and his 'hood
10 January 2008, 4:21 PM
Your Humble Blogger’s home town library has been renovating the main branch. It’s only been my home town for a couple of years, and in fact the main branch closed a month after we moved here, and remained closed for fourteen months. During that stretch, we all made do with two branch libraries that are both fine, fine, branches, but they are branches. Small. Not large.
The point, though, is that after all this time, our library has reopened. At last. There was a gala reopening celebration, with a band and clowns and drinks and ribbon-cutting and mayoral speeches and general fabulousness, and it was packed. I mean, hundreds and hundreds of people. Throngs. Parents and kids, little old ladies, professional types, hipsters, beautiful people, important people, riffraff, wanderers, madmen, saints. The whole town turned out. It was amazing.
That’s all. Just thought you’d like to know: YHB lives in a town which turns out in the hundreds for a library opening. I win.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
Comments
from the video, i see that your hometown library looks exactly like my old hometown library, with an added orange cow
Posted by: hapa (web) | January 11, 2008 4:39 AM
So, what you're saying is, I win again on the cow.
Thanks,
-V.
Posted by: Vardibidian (mail) (web) | January 11, 2008 2:20 PM
heck yeah
Posted by: hapa (web) | January 11, 2008 3:39 PM