I love mystery
stories. I just finished reading a
series that was set in a small town with a Carnegie Library. The books mentioned that the first Carnegie
Library had been built in Dunfermline, Scotland, by Andrew Carnegie, the
wealthy Scottish-American industrialist.
Carnegie migrated to the United States with his parents in his
teens. He became wealthy in the railroad
and the steel industries. Later in life,
he gave grants to communities so that they could build public libraries. Nearly 1700 libraries were built in this
country with Carnegie’s grants. From
December 1901 through February 1917, Florida received funding to build 10
Carnegie public libraries. Of the 10,
three have been torn down but the other buildings are still in operation though
not always used as libraries. The
Jacksonville Public Library’s original building was funded in part by Carnegie
and now houses a law firm. Four academic
libraries were also funded in Florida--Florida A&M, Stetson, Rollins, and
Fessenden Academy. Tallahassee was
offered the money for a library but turned it down as Carnegie’s rules said the
library had to serve everyone. As a
result, the money went to the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored
Students (now Florida A&M).
Fessenden Academy Library was absorbed into the Marion Public
School District and the building is still in use. Stetson’s library is now Sampson Hall. Carnegie wanted not only to fund a library
project in a community but to keep it growing. The financial restrictions on the grant were
that the communities had to have building sites and raise matching funds. The communities had to agree to use public
funds to support the libraries and spend at least 10 percent of the amount of
the grant annually on operations and maintenance. In his youth, Carnegie felt that he had
benefited greatly from access to the personal library of one of his patrons. He felt that if he were to acquire wealth, he
would use it to see that others could have the opportunities he had. The original library in Dunfermline has an
inscription over the door that reads “Let there be light.” Carnegie felt that libraries provided that
light. I believe they still do. Evelyn C. McDonald https://fernandinaobserver.com/uncategorized/let-there-be-light/
What's the meaning of the
phrase 'As keen as mustard'? Very enthusiastic. There are many similes in English that have
the form 'as x as y'. 'As keen
as mustard' is typical and, although rather archaic, is worth a closer
look. The Olde England of folk-memory
conjures up pictures of ale-quaffing yeomen tucking into sides of roast beef.
That may be fanciful, but the long-standing enthusiasm for the Sunday roast was
real, and was reflected in the words of Richard Leveridge's 1735 song Roast
beef of old England. Mustard was an
essential accompaniment to beef. It
became associated with vigour and enthusiasm because it added zest and
flavour. By the early 20th century, the
association was so strong that the word was used like this: 1925 E. Wallace, in King by Night: "That fellow is mustard." People and things weren't just like mustard,
they were mustard. The phrase 'hot
stuff' comes from the same notion.
Mustard's hot and zesty reputation wasn't limited to food. It was also considered a cure for colds and
fevers. The phrase is first recorded in
William Walker's exhaustively titled Phraseologia Anglo-Latina, or
phrases of the English and Latin tongue; together with Paroemiologia
Anglo-Latina, 1672: "As keen
as mustard."
A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a flexible legal and tax entity
that allows partners to benefit from economies of scale by working together while also
reducing their liability for the actions of other partners. Limited
liability partnerships allow for a partnership structure where each partner's
liabilities is limited to the amount they put into the business. Having business partners means spreading the
risk, leveraging individual skills and expertise, and establishing a division
of labor. Limited liability means that
if the partnership fails, creditors cannot go after a partner's personal assets
or income. LLPs are common in
professional business like law firms, accounting firms, and wealth
managers. Andrew Beattie https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/090214/limited-liability-partnership-llp-basics.asp
In
consideration of the health of our visitors, volunteers, staff, and the
community at large, the Wood County (Ohio) Museum is closed to the public
effective Monday, March 16, 2020, and will remain closed through May 1, 2020. MUSEUM
EXHIBITS NOW ONLINE UTOPIA: A Visual Storytelling of Our Home These images tell the stories of what
makes Wood County so special, and remind us of the beauty that surrounds us
every day. A CLEAN BILL OF
HEALTH: Societal Response to Disease Learn more about the
pandemics that came before COVID-19.
Hand-washing and social distancing of the last hundred years. CHASING
THE WHITE RABBIT: An Historical Look at
American Mental Illness Follow the misconceptions
and advancements in mental health. WOOD
COUNTY (non)DRIVING TOUR (audio) Take an audio trip around Wood County with
stories about Devil's Hole Road, the Great Black Fire of North Baltimore, the
Legacy of Edward Ford, and much more. LISTEN NOW http://www.woodcountyhistory.org/ Thank you, Muse reader!
“A
little while later I visited the new Bibliothèque Nationale, the big--the
unbelievably vertigo-inspiringly enormous--library, out at the other end of the
quai in the Thirteenth. It seems to have
been designed by a committee made up of Michel Foucault, Jacques Tati, and the
production designer of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The whole thing is
set up, way up, on a wooden platform the size of six or seven football fields,
high up off the street. There is an
unbelievably steep stairs, leading up to this plateau . . . Then there are four
glass skyscrapers each one set at one of the corners of the platform, and all
very handsome, in a kind of early-sixties . . . way. The vast space has been planked out with teak
boards, to make it 'warmer,' but this just makes it more slippery. They have had to put down cheap-looking
runners on a sticky backing, to keep people from breaking legs. (Apparently there were quite a few victims
early on.)” http://booksasfood.blogspot.com/2018/07/at-bibliotheque.html From Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Scottsdale Arizona's
McDowell Sonoran Preserve offers more than 215 miles of trails in 30,500 acres
of Sonoran Desert. See list of trails
with length and elevation gain at https://www.mcdowellsonoran.org/visit-the-preserve/trailheads/ In 1991, the McDowell Sonoran
Conservancy incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)3 and joined the Land Trust
Alliance, a worldwide land conservation movement. Contact information: McDowell
Sonoran Conservancy 7729 East Greenway
Road, Suite 100 Scottsdale, AZ
85260 Phone: (480) 998-7971info@mcdowellsonoran.org https://www.mcdowellsonoran.org/about-us/history/
The largest country in the
world is Russia with a total area of
17,098,242 Km² (6,601,665
mi²) and a land area of 16,376,870 Km² (6,323,142
mi²), equivalent to 11% of the total
world's landmass of 148,940,000 Km² (57,510,000 square miles). See list
of countries (and dependencies) ranked by area and link to Most Populous Countries at https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in-the-world/
The National Bobblehead
Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Milwaukee, unveiled a bobblehead of Ohio
Gov. Mike DeWine on April 24, 2020. The
museum will donate $5 from every Governor DeWine bobblehead sold to the Protect
the Heroes fund in support of the 100 Million Mask Challenge. The Hall of Fame and Museum has already
raised more than $160,000 through sales of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx
bobbleheads. The Gov. DeWine bobbleheads
are only available through the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum's
online store and are $25 each plus a shipping charge of $8 per order. They will ship in July 2020. https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2020/04/24/ohio-governor-mike-dewine-bobblehead-unveiled/stories/20200424178 See also https://www.bobbleheadhall.com/
Writer Nikolai Gogol first
referenced bobblehead dolls in 1842 in the Russian short story “The
Overcoat.” He described the main
character, Akaky, as having a neck, which was, “like the neck of plaster cats
which wag their heads." https://www.bobbleheadhall.com/history/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2260
April 27, 2020
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