When I was sixteen years old I became a member of the "Artigas-Washington" library. It was an important step in my life because Uruguay was always a poor country and our libraries were small with old books. I read "Hojas de Hierba" (Leaves of Grass) by Walt Whitman so many times that some important woman who came from The United States gave me the book. I enjoyed the Democracy Poet very much, but I used the library mostly for borrowing science books. I went every week to read magazines such as Science and Nature. At some time in my life I was adicted to the articles of Steefen Jay Gould.
I think that libraries are the soul of the cities. It was the first place that I went when I came to Worcester. It is the biggest library that I know. I started the conversation meetings a month after arriving and it has allowed me to find links with this culture.
"Lakale"
ReplyDeleteShould I submit your library story to Do the Write Thing???
I didn't write it for Do the Write Thing, but you can submit it, why not?
ReplyDelete"Lakale",
ReplyDeleteI will submit it to Do the Write Thing, but you have to come in to sign the 2006 Permission to Publish form. BUREAUCRACY! Are youy coming on Wednesday?----Also, I will have to edit it again and make those capital letter corrections into small letters.---Oh, one more thing: I will need to know your new address for the Do the Write Thing form.