Fairhope has such a wonderful library; I'll actually be covering it next month. I'm scheduling interviews with Fairhope residents about how the library has made their lives better. Folks are really eager to talk about how much this library means to them!
Looks like it's The Alabama Solution, which will be on HBO in October. It's very in line with some other work I'm doing, so thanks for pointing me in that direction. I'll definitely be watching it as soon as it's out.
Sent you a DM about the Fairhope Library stories. Thanks again!
It is a wonderful library. And it’s sad that it’s hard so much trouble from pressure groups.
Please let me know if you need more names of people to talk to about the FPL. The writers in residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts use it a lot and I suspect any would love to help you. Two who are on Substack are @Beth Shelburne and @Leslie Pietrzyk. Beth was an anchor at the largest news station Alabama, and Leslie won one of the most important short story prizes in America. Big supporters of libraries!
Thank you for the writer leads! I have a spot left for another story, and getting the perspectives of some of the writers-in-residence will round out the coverage really well.
This whole issue is an eye opener for me living in Ireland, a primarily Catholic country where the church and state tried to control its citizens moral lives for many years. Thank God we have moved on from those times in Ireland.
Yes, they are. And since I have started volunteering at the shelter a whole population that I saw every day began to be visible to me. What I mean by this is that I started to recognize in my day-to-day life men that I also saw at the shelter. I would see them before I began volunteering, waiting at bus stops, walking by the coffee shop, in the library, but then after I started volunteering I would say, Oh, there's Johnny, there's Daniel, there's Michael. I had always seen them. Now I know their names. It's hard to describe when something that is visible becomes even more so but maybe you know what I mean! Anyway, yes, they hang out at the library, and we actually have a bookshelf in the shelter stocked with magazines and assorted books.
If I were to do it all over again, I think I would be a librarian. The older I get the more I see them as the indispensable resource they are, not just for learning but for community especially. At the branch closest to me books are almost secondary to everything else that is going on, all of it important.
For a lot of people, they are secondary. And as someone who works with the homeless, you know a big one: They’re a place where the homeless can use computers and look for jobs or places to live.
Well, maybe some adult will pick up the teen sex book looking to it for guidance on how to talk to his or her teen about the subject. At least it's still in the library!
Fairhope has such a wonderful library; I'll actually be covering it next month. I'm scheduling interviews with Fairhope residents about how the library has made their lives better. Folks are really eager to talk about how much this library means to them!
Beth is Emmy winner with a new documentary out on HBO or Netflix and a great person.
Looks like it's The Alabama Solution, which will be on HBO in October. It's very in line with some other work I'm doing, so thanks for pointing me in that direction. I'll definitely be watching it as soon as it's out.
Sent you a DM about the Fairhope Library stories. Thanks again!
It is a wonderful library. And it’s sad that it’s hard so much trouble from pressure groups.
Please let me know if you need more names of people to talk to about the FPL. The writers in residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts use it a lot and I suspect any would love to help you. Two who are on Substack are @Beth Shelburne and @Leslie Pietrzyk. Beth was an anchor at the largest news station Alabama, and Leslie won one of the most important short story prizes in America. Big supporters of libraries!
Thank you for the writer leads! I have a spot left for another story, and getting the perspectives of some of the writers-in-residence will round out the coverage really well.
This whole issue is an eye opener for me living in Ireland, a primarily Catholic country where the church and state tried to control its citizens moral lives for many years. Thank God we have moved on from those times in Ireland.
Given all the talk of the demise in reading, I’m pleasantly surprised people are still fighting over books.
Yes, they are. And since I have started volunteering at the shelter a whole population that I saw every day began to be visible to me. What I mean by this is that I started to recognize in my day-to-day life men that I also saw at the shelter. I would see them before I began volunteering, waiting at bus stops, walking by the coffee shop, in the library, but then after I started volunteering I would say, Oh, there's Johnny, there's Daniel, there's Michael. I had always seen them. Now I know their names. It's hard to describe when something that is visible becomes even more so but maybe you know what I mean! Anyway, yes, they hang out at the library, and we actually have a bookshelf in the shelter stocked with magazines and assorted books.
If I were to do it all over again, I think I would be a librarian. The older I get the more I see them as the indispensable resource they are, not just for learning but for community especially. At the branch closest to me books are almost secondary to everything else that is going on, all of it important.
For a lot of people, they are secondary. And as someone who works with the homeless, you know a big one: They’re a place where the homeless can use computers and look for jobs or places to live.
Well, maybe some adult will pick up the teen sex book looking to it for guidance on how to talk to his or her teen about the subject. At least it's still in the library!
Yes, we have to appreciate small victories like those.