Being Asian, a Perpetual Fountain of Youth
Yep, so in three days, I visited three different libraries. Really interesting how those things are built and laid out. My favorite is without a doubt the historical one downtown, built in the 1850s, rebuilt in the early 1900s, and remodeled again in the early 2000s. The architecture is described as Italian Renaissance revival.
The kid's room is flippin' amazing. I think it still has the old puppet stage from the 50s, and an assortment of toys and play areas as well as row after row of low bookshelves full of children's books. I was so impressed with it, I just wanted to sit and hang out (I haven't seen the kid's room since before they remodeled and changed rooms).
Then there's the one closest to my house, an old, run-down Carnegie library with a police officer stationed inside for the night shift. It was once beautiful inside, but now it's kinda fallen into disrepair and its smallness is hard to ignore. Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline, Scotland, had over 2500 libraries built in the U.S. (and more in other countries), but word on the street is that he left a lot of them empty and the communities had to fill them with books themselves.
ANYWAY, I went on a crazy day...I found myself downtown amidst St. Patties Day drunkards and ended up at a bus stop where a fellow mistook me for a high schooler.
"What school you go to?"
"The U."
*bug-eyed* "You a Freshman?"
"No."
"Sophomore?"
"No..."
"...a Junior?"
*holding up five fingers* "A fifth year. How about you?"
"A senior." (in high school)
LMAO.
I'm determined someday to be the older woman, but not yet. Not quite yet.
The kid's room is flippin' amazing. I think it still has the old puppet stage from the 50s, and an assortment of toys and play areas as well as row after row of low bookshelves full of children's books. I was so impressed with it, I just wanted to sit and hang out (I haven't seen the kid's room since before they remodeled and changed rooms).
Then there's the one closest to my house, an old, run-down Carnegie library with a police officer stationed inside for the night shift. It was once beautiful inside, but now it's kinda fallen into disrepair and its smallness is hard to ignore. Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline, Scotland, had over 2500 libraries built in the U.S. (and more in other countries), but word on the street is that he left a lot of them empty and the communities had to fill them with books themselves.
ANYWAY, I went on a crazy day...I found myself downtown amidst St. Patties Day drunkards and ended up at a bus stop where a fellow mistook me for a high schooler.
"What school you go to?"
"The U."
*bug-eyed* "You a Freshman?"
"No."
"Sophomore?"
"No..."
"...a Junior?"
*holding up five fingers* "A fifth year. How about you?"
"A senior." (in high school)
LMAO.
I'm determined someday to be the older woman, but not yet. Not quite yet.