[Homestead] Old books
eureka at hctc.net
eureka at hctc.net
Tue Oct 28 11:40:29 EDT 2008
Yeah, I couldn't find it either after I sent the link.
Maybe they traded the arm chair collection for something
else, or just don't list everything. But you get an
inkling of the scope of things that are there from
browsing the site.
You mentioned your interesting western ephemera--they are
likely to have a room full of anything unique along with
an associate librarian dedicated to managing it who
majored in Russian language and has worn the same brown
sweater for 30 years, or a punky blond youth who
excersises his right to wear dresses to work that you will
years later end up seeing playing a bad guy in a movie.
The stacks were a place you did not travel without a map,
as most of the doors only opened one way and then locked
behind you. If you made a mistake, you could end up locked
in some room until someone noticed you missing. Each room
was a different environment, some as you may have read are
entire recreations of author's studies. The room of
armchairs was like being in somebody's attic. It was a
very Harry Potterish experience.
Just don't know how they ended up hiring someone as normal
as me ;-)
--S
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:56:34 -0700 (PDT)
bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been browsing the site a bit, a good photo of a
>very dignified looking Marcus Garvey, just now. I don't
>, though, know where to search for photo of Poe's d*mn
>chair :-) ....bobf
>
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