Cromaine Library, original wing, c.1927 Nearly eighteen years ago I met Charles Novacek for the first time. It was in the original Emil Lorch designed wing of the Cromaine Library in Hartland, Michigan. We had been “matched” by two women artist friends and library patrons, Electra Stamelos and Lula Nestor. I had been the library …
Last night, for the first time, I was a Book Giver for World Book Night.* It seems an appropriate thing for a librarian of forty years to do, doesn’t it? An estimated half a million free World Book Night paperbacks were given out this year and this librarian gave out twenty. World Book Night is an annual …
Had great fun in my Cass Corridor neighborhood today with University of Michigan students in the “Semester in Detroit” program. I was one of the local speakers at Source Booksellers, a neighborhood indie bookstore. I talked with the students about Charles writing his memoir in the city (a Detroit immigrant story), Border Crossings: Coming of …
