Friday: What a difference a day makes in Buzzards Bay! Flat calm. Great day to head for Stoney Point Dyke, then back to the Narrows, and around to Cromissett, on up to Great Hill, with repeat loopdey-loops for the rest of the day. We’re closing the gap on the 1,000 mile goal.m I haven’t seen the GPS read-out yet but I’m going to guess that we’re just past the 950 mile mark. I’m going to have to start paying attention or I’ll paddle right past Chicago!
My thought of the day: As we seem to be in a national financial situation of historic proportions , journalists are cranking out vignettes from the Great Depression of The Thirties. Yesterday I read about Mayor Fiorello Laguardia’s reaction to The Crash: He opened up storefront libraries all over the city. He saw the need. People out of work would be looking for ways to improve their chances for getting a job. Another article about the Depression spoke of the phenomenon of the increase of literacy during depressions.
All of this ties in with things I’ve said before: A fully functioning library is not a frill. The poorer a community becomes, the more it needs a strong library system.
