Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? As the 10th anniversary of this epochal moment approaches, I find myself reflecting back on the day and its aftermath. My memory plays like a movie. It was a day just like any other canopied by an improbably blue sky. My walk to work, a stop for carryout [...]
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On August 28, the 48th anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will be formally dedicated in Washington D.C. Located in West Potomac Park and flanked by the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, [...]
Baseball became a part of my life on a cool evening in the late summer of 1960 at Griffith Stadium in a game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. The Yankees won. And from that evening on, I was hooked on both baseball and the Yankees. In the months before my [...]
And now we bring you the last part of the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog post, designed to chase the dark away. 2010, PART 3…. 17. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon, The Harlem Community Choir, Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band, from John Lennon & Yoko [...]
This week we bring you the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog post, designed to chase the dark away. PART 2…. 9. Angels We Have Heard On High by Indigo Girls from Holly Happy DaysGirls with guitars who have known each other since grade school and whose voices blend like a yogurt [...]
This week we bring you the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog post, designed to chase the dark away. PART 1…. 1. The Gloucestershire Wassail by Waverly Consort, from A Waverly Consort Christmas: Christmas From East Anglia To Appalachia – What holiday is complete without some good old, wassailing? Take some [...]
We’re a few months into the new fiscal year and I thought it would be a good time to check in. All Arlington County departments took budget cuts for FY 2011: Arlington County, like almost every local government in the nation, faced and still faces serious revenue shortfalls. The budget was presented publicly and carefully [...]
** 6/18/10: The proposal regarding Columbia Pike Branch Library was withdrawn Friday, June 18, in a press release from the County Manager’s office.** **Town Hall Meeting Venue Update **To accommodate as many people as possible, the June 16, 7:00 p.m. meeting has been moved to the atrium of the Career Center, which is adjacent to [...]
** Updated 5/6/10 – The video of Diane’s Conversation with Wendell Berry is now online – Windows Media Player required – and will air on Comcast 25 & Verizon 40 – Sunday, May 9 at 4:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. ** The Real Deal arrived last night in Arlington. It wasn’t the Beatles [...]
The Arlington Years Thoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Hello again, As you may have heard, the County Board on Saturday adopted a $955.9 million budget for Fiscal Year 2011. For Arlington Public Library, the results mean some changes in Library hours and materials when the fiscal year begins July [...]