Library 89: Milton Public Library
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Library 89! The Milton Public Library was the 89th stop on my quest to read, write, and knit in as many of Vermont’s public libraries as I can during my sabbatical.
I read: “What to do when the news scares you” by Jacqueline Toner.
I wrote: notes about plans for TeachOut Vermont
I knit: the cuff of a fingerless mitt in donegal tweed
What did the pirate say when she turned 80? Aye, matey!
Forgive me.
This picture of Ana & Gabriel & me is one of my favorite library pictures. Patrons kept walking into the library and not taking pictures with this pirate photo prop, and I can only assume it’s because they’d done it already. I could not concentrate on anything else until we’d done it.
Something I learned from inter-library-loan librarian Tracey (after she kindly took our photo) is that Vermont public libraries have a state-wide “summer reading program,” hosted by the Vermont Department of Libraries. This year’s theme is “adventure begins at your library,” and Milton has chosen pirates as their mascot. I asked Tracey to tell me something weird about this library, and we agreed that currently it is the quantity of pirates.
In non-pirate news, the Milton Artists’ Guild provides a regular rotation of installations here, and the current show is a series of Vermont landscapes painted in what I think of as Cyndi Lauper colors. I love them. If the visual intersection of Vermont + Miami Vice appeals to you as a knitter, there’s a yarn for that: Vermont Vice by Junction Fiber Mill. It’s great yARRn.
Forgive me.
I picked up a book for children about how to cope with scary things you hear on the news, and then devoured it as a 45-year-old person who is often overwhelmed after reading the news. One piece of coping advice was to continue on with daily routines. Like going to libraries. And knitting. Take that, anti-trans legislation, gag-orders on teachers, corporatization of higher education, genocide, war, climate change, mass shootings, pandemics, famine, new-age slavery, book bans, and mass incarceration:
I knit in your face!
Does that make me feel better?
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Sword of! Bahahaha. Enjoy your library posts and humor as always!