This morning, while doing a casual web search for banned books graphics, I came across my own logo for BBARK by surprise. I saw that it was posted by a library, so I interestingly followed the link and discovered that it was for a public library in Ontario, Canada...
He was the third President of the United States, the most intellectual figure in shaping America’s early history, and a voice of reason in his own time as well as today. The thought is enough to imagine him rolling in his grave, but, like fellow Founding Father, Thomas Paine,...
Thomas Paine was many things: author, radical, inventor, intellectual, and revolutionary; but he was also considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, was considered so influential to the American revolutionary cause that it was reportedly said at the time that “without...
On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once again made headlines, but it wasn’t for literary accomplishment or news of a long-lost Sherlock Holmes crime buster. He, instead, found himself on newswires around the world for having one of his books banned. This isn’t the first time...
The Giving Tree is one of the most affectionate, oft-quoted, and beloved children’s stories of all time; A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends are many a child’s first introduction to poetry. These books have endured because Silverstein paints a whimsical world of fantasy that...
What Mark Twain was to the 19th century, Kurt Vonnegut was to the 20th. Both are among the finest examples of the American Satirists. He was, and is, a beloved fixture of American literature. When Vonnegut died in 2007, members of the Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department in New York...
The 1865 work by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym) about a girl’s trip into a fantasy world has been of tremendous influence on literature and music, and a mainstay of animated and feature adaptations for generations. It is widely considered to be one of the best...
Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is Jack London’s most-read book, and is generally considered his best, hailed as the masterpiece of his “early period.” Critic Maxwell Geismar, in 1960, referred to The Call of the Wild as “a beautiful prose poem,” and Editor Franklin Walker said...
Frozen in silent fear of Fate For a war of jealousy and hate Death grips a world thus enslaved By souls not worthy to be saved Once noble men of admiration Become demons of abomination To rip the sane minds away...
Those who know me are aware I don’t like to dance. My hesitation to just let loose And shake it on a crowded dance floor I am moved by music- Emotionally and spiritually Looking for meaning between the words That I can relate to Strangers may dance together to...