Wine Library

•A special service and collection of the Sonoma County Library, the collection comprising 5,000 books on wine and related subjects, subscriptions and backfiles to over 80 wine-related periodicals.
•Located in the Healdsburg Regional Library, 139 Piper St. (corner of Piper and Center), Healdsburg, CA  Telephone 707-433-3772; Fax 707-433-7946.
•Wine Librarian Jon Haupt and the other professionals at the Healdsburg Library will be happy to get you the right article, bibliographic reference, photograph or piece of wine information.  Contact them at the above numbers or send e-mail to: winelibrary@sonoma.lib.ca.us

http://lisnews.org/theres_such_thing_as_a_wine_library_and_they_have_a_wine_librarian

The peanut butter and pickle sandwich is one of those unlikely pairings that shouldn’t work, but does  by Dwight Garner  I’ve been happily eating these distinctive little sandwiches for years.  The vinegary snap of chilled pickle cuts, like a dash of irony, against the stoic unctuousness of peanut butter.  My father passed them down to me.  Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches got him through law school at West Virginia University.  I’ve come to consider them the work-at-home writer’s friend.  The PB&P has been a minority enthusiasm in America for generations, lingering just under the radar.  The sandwiches appeared on lunch-counter menus during the Great Depression and in extension-service cookbooks in the 1930s and ’40s in recipes that generally called for a few spoonfuls of pickle relish.  A lot of people’s grandmothers used to eat them.  These days, they’re a cult item.  Kinsey Millhone, the fictional private investigator in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series of mysteries, is probably America’s best-known devotee.   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/dining/making-a-meal-out-of-peanut-butter-and-pickles.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Brownstone is a reddish-brown sandstone used extensively as a building stone in eastern United States during the nineteenth century.  Its place in geologic history, however, dates back to late Triassic and Early Jurassic times, about two hundred million years ago when the dinosaurs were establishing their domination over the lands.  http://www.state.nj.us/dep/seeds/staterock.htm

See also The Brownstone Guide, Maintenance & Repair Facts for Historic Property Owners (12 pages) from New York Landmarks Conservancy Technical Services Center
http://www.mzarchitects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BrownstoneGuide.pdf

Greystones are a unique form of residential building that defines the character of many of Chicago’s historic neighborhoods – the same way that “Brownstones” define neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY. “Greystone” refers to a style of construction – a masonry building with a front facade constructed of Bedford limetone quarried from southcentral Indiana – rather than a singular architectural style.  Popular between 1890 and 1930, Greystones were built in a wide range of sizes.  There are an estimated 30,000 Greystones remaining in the City of Chicago.  Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative® (12 pages)   http://www.nhschicago.org/images/uploads/pages/Greystone%20Booklet,%20FINAL%20DRAFT,%20062509.pdf

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does.  You have to really see the person.  If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises.  If you tune into the other person, you feel with them.  If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come.  You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act.  So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.  Daniel Goleman

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.  Simone Weil
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/topics/attention/

Swabia (sometimes Suabia or Svebia) (German:  Schwaben, colloquially also Schwabenland or Ländle) is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.  In the past, Swabians were the target of many jokes and stories where they are depicted as excessively stingy, overly serious, prudish, or as simpletons, for instance in "The Seven Swabians" (Die sieben Schwaben) published in Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm.  However, this has ceased to a large extent, while Swabians are nowadays said to be frugal, clever, entrepreneurial and hard-working.  In a widely respected publicity campaign on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Baden-Württemberg, economically the most successful state in modern Germany, the Swabians famously replied to the former jokes with:  "We can do everything—except speak Standard German" (Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch), alluding to the region's distinct local dialect.  Many Swabian surnames end with the suffixes -le, -el, -ehl, and -lin.  The popular surname Schwab is derived from this area, meaning literally "Swabian". 

See history and modern borders of Swabia depicted at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabia

Saved from Dumpster:  Amazing map collection makes librarians tingle

The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles Public Library on the map.  Stashed everywhere in the 948-square-foot tear-down were maps.  Tens of thousands of maps.  Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets, crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into old dairy crates.  Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren were stacked in corners.  Old globes were lined in rows atop bookshelves also filled with maps and atlases.  The occupant of the 90-year-old cottage had died in February.  Greenberg's job was to empty the home so it could be demolished and its 18,000-square-foot lot, near the top of Canyon Vista Drive, divided into two parcels.  His clients had told him to rent a Dumpster and throw away whatever he found inside.  But Greenberg couldn't bring himself to do that, especially after he read a recent Los Angeles Times article about the Central Library's map collection.  Instead, he invited its map librarian, Glen Creason, to Mount Washington to look at the trove.  Creason called the find unbelievable.  Creason returned to the home October 18 with 10 library employees and volunteers to box up the maps.  The acquisition will give the city library one of the country's top five library map archives, behind the Library of Congress and public libraries in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, he said.  Bob Pool  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/19/local/la-me-map-house-20121019 

Detroit Tigers logo is in Old English font--see examples on the Web.

See also:  http://www.freep.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/109300444/Tigers-D-logo-shows-Detroit-pride-tells-story-over-time

The New York Giants logo featured the letters N and Y printed on top of each other in a manner very similar to the logos the Yankees and Mets still use today.  The familiar orange and black colors were also present since the beginning, as the New York Giants caps were black with orange letters.  The font of the logo went through minor evolutions over the years, becoming slightly more ornate.  By the time the Giants left New York in 1957, their logo had become iconic.  In an effort to maintain as much of the team's identity as possible during the move, the new San Francisco Giants made minimal changes to their logo. An S and F written in a similar font replaced the N and Y on the team's cap.  The team's colors remained orange and black, and the logo used in promotional materials, a baseball with the word Giants written over it in cursive, remained unchanged.  The promotional logo has gone through evolutions that reflect the changing styles of the times.  In the 1970s, the white baseball behind the Giants name was changed from white to orange, and in the 1980s a bolder, uppercase type font replaced the cursive Giants from the earlier logo.  Through it all, the S and F on the team's cap have remained a constant, although in minor league play and on special occasions throughout the season, the team plays with caps displaying a cursive G that harkens back to the old promotional logo.  http://sanfrancisco.lovetoknow.com/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants_Logo  The Giants use many custom fonts, and you will see examples on the Web.