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“Library”: from the Latin liber, book.
Do you remember when libraries were just books?
The small library tucked away just over the railroad hump in Lansdowne, Pa., during the 1940s and 1950s was as instrumental in shaping my mental and moral character as the Highland Ave. playground was in shaping my physical and social one.
There the building still is. Thank god it’s not a tattoo parlor or something. The spirit of the bun’d, bespectacled Miss Barrow must still reside beneath the eaves.
Our BAPL is not your grandfather Gadfly’s library. It’s so much more.
Would you join me tonight at the virtual library ?
Support your local artists!
Join us on Thursday April 9 for a live online reading! Lehigh Valley author Joyce Hinnefeld will read from her latest collection of short fiction, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH, online, via Facebook Live and Zoom. Stream from anywhere. A live Q&A will follow.
Order a copy online from Let’s Play Books or your favorite local bookstore!
This reading will take place ONLINE, via Zoom and on Facebook Live. Register here, or email kracculia@bapl.org to request a Zoom link and password. You will receive your log-in credentials on the afternoon of the reading.
Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.
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