Carnegie libraries visited: Jefferson and Audobon, Iowa I visited my new love, the Ames library, again for a morning tryst. The...

Carnegie libraries visited: Colfax and Ames, Iowa Knoxville, Panther Country I started my workday at the Coffee Connection on the town...

Carnegie libraries visited: Oskaloosa and Knoxville, Iowa Mothers’ Day Vignettes; the libraries are closed. When the police officer wakes...

Carnegie libraries visited: Albany, Missouri and Villisca, Mount Ayr, Leon, Osceola, and Albia, Iowa I’m going to have to rethink my...

Carnegie libraries visited: Huntsville, Marceline, St. Joseph Carnegie, St. Joseph, and Washington Bluff, Missouri. Susan Jennette...

Carnegie libraries visited: Springfield, Sedalia, Fulton, Mexico, Fayette, and Moberly, Missouri Springfield Carnegie Library Sedalia...

Carnegie libraries visited: El Reno and Elk City, Oklahoma It was a three library day: the Patience Latting Library in OKC, followed by...

Carnegie libraries visited: Collinsville, Sapulpa, and Perry, Oklahoma After a leisurely morning with Mark and Sally, I saddled up and...

Carnegie libraries visited: Tahlequah and Wagoner, Oklahoma I didn’t get out of bed until 11 a.m. My alarm went off, as usual, at 6.30...

Carnegie libraries visited: Eureka Springs, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas is booming. Bentonville is home to Walmart. It, not Amazon, is...

Carnegie libraries visited: Morrilton, Arkansas On September 14, 1914, Mrs. E.E. Love, the President of the Pathfinder Club of Morrilton,...

Carnegie libraries visited: Clarksdale, Arkansas Clarksdale, Mississippi Clarksdale, Mississippi has the blues, bad. Its population has...

Carnegie libraries visited: Okolona and Houston, Mississippi Okolona Public Library Alabama (“We defend our rights” is the state motto)...

Carnegie libraries visited: Albany, McMinnville, Newberg, Woodburn, Oregon City, all in Oregon Coos Bay Orego The parking lot at the Coos...

In Sapiens , author Yuval Harari speculates that with the development of human’s cognitive capacity they invented Gods. I marvel at this,...

Carnegie libraries visited: Carthage and Aurora, Missouri Carthage Public Library Aurora Public Library I had driven an hour in the wrong...

Carnegie libraries visited: Fort Scott and Cherryvale, Kansas and Webb City, Missouri I had to Harry Houdini myself in the car this...

Carnegie libraries visited: Clay Center, Fairfield, Geneva, Fairbury, Nebraska Correction: the beer at the hotel’s happy hour last night...

Carnegie libraries visited: Wymore, Nebraska and Hiawatha, Kansas Nebraska greeted me with emerald eyes this morning. The lawns, parks,...

Carnegie libraries visited: Mount Pleasant, Ephraim and Manti, Utah. The bad weather made my day better. It would have been hard for me...