Jane Yolen and the map of my childhood

[sartorias]

I'll put it behind a cut as I fear it's long

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[ex_greythist387]

This was lovely.

We drove along the same stretch of Sepulveda today; I headed south to a friend's wedding in Palos Verdes. The little branch library I described on Monday is in the housing cluster being built where Lincoln swings around LMU.

[sartorias]

What used to be the old Hughes airport? I was looking at that housing complex yesterday! How cool is that!

My old branch library, where I hung our for so very many hours, lies at the top of that hill, at the corner of Manchester and Sepulveda. I couldn't tell if it's still a library, but the building had the well-remembered shape, unchanged.

[ex_greythist387]

Yep--still functional. (I had to check because the possibility of a branch retired in favor of the tiny, tiny new one caused some anxiety.)

[sartorias]

Oh wow, that is amazingly cool. Thank you! (I didn't have time to stop on the way to Marina, and then spent my time on the other side of Sepulveda afterward.)

I am so glad to find that library is still there. So many happy hours spent there; were I ever to accidentally bellyflop into wealth I would donate a massive sum to keep that place there for the community.

[merriehaskell]

That school, that neighborhood, form the basic landscape of my dreams.

I like that there are other people in the world who know the origins of their dream landscapes. Or even have such things. Thank you for introducing us to yours.

[rysmiel]

This is really lovely. Thank you.

[quiller77]

Thank you for sharing. Your sixth grade teacher sounds like a modern day Medusa. ;-) Mine was only the normal old-school strict, who belched the odd bit of humiliation. My old middle school (gr. 4-9) is long gone, the victim of a firebug after a new school had already been built. But it, too, lives on in my dreams.

[rachelmanija]

I really enjoyed reading that. The bit with the teacher and the snake is begging to be put into a story some day.