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Day 73, Wednesday May 15, 2024: Lake View, Iowa to Sanborn, Iowa
Carnegie libraries visited: Odebolt, Hampton, Clear Lake, Sanborn Another day, another 18 libraries. I did not know this when I popped...
Mark Carl Rom
May 16, 20259 min read


Day 72, Tuesday May 14, 2024: Ames, Iowa to Lake View, Iowa
Carnegie libraries visited: Jefferson and Audobon, Iowa I visited my new love, the Ames library, again for a morning tryst. The...
Mark Carl Rom
May 14, 20255 min read


Day 71, Monday, May 13, 2024: Knoxville, Iowa to Ames, Iowa
Carnegie libraries visited: Colfax and Ames, Iowa Knoxville, Panther Country I started my workday at the Coffee Connection on the town...
Mark Carl Rom
May 13, 20257 min read


Day 70, Sunday, May 12, 2024: Albia, Iowa to Knoxville, Iowa
Carnegie libraries visited: Oskaloosa and Knoxville, Iowa Mothers’ Day Vignettes; the libraries are closed. When the police officer wakes...
Mark Carl Rom
May 13, 20257 min read


Day 69, Saturday May 11, 2024: St. Joseph, Missouri to Albia, Iowa
Carnegie libraries visited: Albany, Missouri and Villisca, Mount Ayr, Leon, Osceola, and Albia, Iowa I’m going to have to rethink my...
Mark Carl Rom
May 12, 20254 min read


Day 68, Friday May 10, 2024: Moberly, Missouri to St. Joseph, Missouri
Carnegie libraries visited: Huntsville, Marceline, St. Joseph Carnegie, St. Joseph, and Washington Bluff, Missouri. Susan Jennette...
Mark Carl Rom
May 12, 20255 min read


Day 67, Thursday May 9, 2024: Fayetteville, Arkansas to Moberly, Missouri
Carnegie libraries visited: Springfield, Sedalia, Fulton, Mexico, Fayette, and Moberly, Missouri Springfield Carnegie Library Sedalia...
Mark Carl Rom
May 11, 20253 min read
Day 17, Friday, March 1, 2024: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Hobart, Oklahoma
Carnegie libraries visited: El Reno and Elk City, Oklahoma It was a three library day: the Patience Latting Library in OKC, followed by...
Mark Carl Rom
May 10, 20257 min read


Day 16, Thursday, February 29, 2024: Porter, Oklahoma to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Carnegie libraries visited: Collinsville, Sapulpa, and Perry, Oklahoma After a leisurely morning with Mark and Sally, I saddled up and...
Mark Carl Rom
May 9, 20256 min read


Day 15, Wednesday, February 28, 2024: Fayetteville, Arkansas to Porter, Oklahoma
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...
Mark Carl Rom
May 8, 20254 min read


Day 14, Monday February 26, 2024: Fayetteville, Arkansas to Fayetteville, Arkansas, via Eureka Springs
Carnegie libraries visited: Eureka Springs, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas is booming. Bentonville is home to Walmart. It, not Amazon, is...
Mark Carl Rom
May 8, 20254 min read


Day 13, Saturday, February 24, 2024: Morrilton, Arkansas to Fayetteville, Arkansas
Carnegie libraries visited: Morrilton, Arkansas On September 14, 1914, Mrs. E.E. Love, the President of the Pathfinder Club of Morrilton,...
Mark Carl Rom
May 7, 20255 min read


Day 12 Friday, February 23, 2024: Houston, Mississippi to Morrilton, Arkansas
Carnegie libraries visited: Clarksdale, Arkansas Clarksdale, Mississippi Clarksdale, Mississippi has the blues, bad. Its population has...
Mark Carl Rom
May 7, 20257 min read


Day 11, Thursday February 22, 2024: Mobile, Alabama to Oxford, Mississippi
Carnegie libraries visited: Okolona and Houston, Mississippi Okolona Public Library Alabama (“We defend our rights” is the state motto)...
Mark Carl Rom
May 6, 20254 min read


Day 39, Saturday March 23, 2024: Coos Bay, Oregon to Portland, Oregon
Carnegie libraries visited: Albany, McMinnville, Newberg, Woodburn, Oregon City, all in Oregon Coos Bay Orego The parking lot at the Coos...
Mark Carl Rom
May 6, 20255 min read


Break, Saturday May 4 through Wednesday, May 8, 2024: Fayetteville, Arkansas
In Sapiens , author Yuval Harari speculates that with the development of human’s cognitive capacity they invented Gods. I marvel at this,...
Mark Carl Rom
May 5, 20259 min read


Day 66, Friday May 3, 2024: Webb City, Missouri to Fayetteville, Arkansas
Carnegie libraries visited: Carthage and Aurora, Missouri Carthage Public Library Aurora Public Library I had driven an hour in the wrong...
Mark Carl Rom
May 5, 20252 min read


Day 65, Thursday May 2, 2024: Olathe, Kansas to Webb City, Missouri
Carnegie libraries visited: Fort Scott and Cherryvale, Kansas and Webb City, Missouri I had to Harry Houdini myself in the car this...
Mark Carl Rom
May 5, 20254 min read


Day 63, Tuesday April 30, 2024: Hastings, Nebraska to Fairbury, Nebraska
Carnegie libraries visited: Clay Center, Fairfield, Geneva, Fairbury, Nebraska Correction: the beer at the hotel’s happy hour last night...
Mark Carl Rom
May 1, 20258 min read
Day 64, Wednesday May 1, 2024: Fairbury, Nebraska to Olathe, Kansas
Carnegie libraries visited: Wymore, Nebraska and Hiawatha, Kansas Nebraska greeted me with emerald eyes this morning. The lawns, parks,...
Mark Carl Rom
May 1, 20255 min read
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