Tag: library
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Bellaire Public Library Holds Author Festival in the Dead of Winter
Each summer for the past twelve years or so, my wife and I have taken children and grandchildren to Oglebay Park near Wheeling for several days of fun and leisure. Shortly before crossing the Ohio River, we pass an exit sign for Route 7 and Bellaire, Ohio. This past Saturday, Bellaire — not Oglebay Park…
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A Visit to Bookingham Forest
(With my website under construction until very recently, I didn’t have time to write a new blog for the first half of August. But this earlier piece, written for my 2016 Otterbein creative writing class, is both fun and bittersweet, since both Naomi and Alek are now too old for story time at Bookingham Forest.)…
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A Visit to Bookingham Forest
Note: I was in Long Island for much of the weekend and didn’t have time to put together a fresh posting for this blog. So here is a story I wrote several years ago about taking my grandchildren to Worthington Library’s “Bookingham Forest.” Going to Bookingham Forest is an adventure that begins even before we…
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Columbus Book Festival Provides Multiple Outlets for Creativity and Learning
Let’s take a break from rules on capitalization and focus on a recent literary event in central Ohio that apparently made quite an impact. The Columbus Book Festival took place on July 15 and 16 inside the main Columbus Metropolitan Library, and in the plaza and topiary garden east of the library. I have been…