Those of us conscious before the advent of the internet remember the American Library Association’s READ campaigns, which featured large posters of celebrities promoting books that were hung in public libraries. In the days before social media, the posters showed celebrities looking normal, like us, and reading.
It made reading, and readers, look cool.
It was, at the time, an astonishing look into the personal lives of celebrities that, before Instagram, was inaccessible. By reading…
Libraries have been central to my life, ever since I got bored in elementary school, and my third grade teacher read Hiedi out loud to our class. Now I’m married to Hiedi’s Swiss daughter and frequent both the Winthrop and Twisp libraries. -Eric, almost lost above Mazama