Upcoming speech at Manatee Performing Arts Center

[DiO'Bolic]

LOL, here are some pics of the library. I was BEYOND impressed witht this facility. Kudos to Steve and Tabby for their hard work in keeping literacy funded properly in their neck of the woods.

Very impressive! I think you could fit our entire library on the steps of that thing. It only make sense for Bangor to have something as magnificent as this. Being home to one of the world’s most read and influential authors, it seems only appropriate that they complement his hometown with such a library. In addition, SK’s probably Bangor’s biggest tourist draw and such a library is probably a destiny for many of those tourists.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I'll fight to the death a person's right to close down a library, but I'll fight to his death before he can do it. I find my veneration for libraries difficult to precisely understand. The closest I can get to describing my feeling for them is to compare them to anything which is more than the sum of its parts. There's more in a library than books on shelves and tables with careful chairs and obsessive-compulsive shhhshers. It's a spiritual place, like some cathedrals want to be. It's simply wrong to do anything to any library - not just a gorgeous, expensive one - except keep it going, and I think a tax-hating, penny-pinching, semi-or-anti-literate curmudgeon still has enough moral underpinning to agree to paying a little for the cause. Anyone else is plain evil. Imho.

Keep up the good fight blunt! Even I realize not everything can, or should be, measured in dollars and cents (shock, horror ).

 

[hossenpepper]

Keep up the good fight blunt! Even I realize not everything can, or should be, measured in dollars and cents (shock, horror ).

You're slipping. Better cover that soft, white underbelly...

 

[hossenpepper]

Very impressive! I think you could fit our entire library on the steps of that thing. It only make sense for Bangor to have something as magnificent as this. Being home to one of the world’s most read and influential authors, it seems only appropriate that they complement his hometown with such a library. In addition, SK’s probably Bangor’s biggest tourist draw and such a library is probably a destiny for many of those tourists.

Anything to keep people reading. Lest we all forget it was forced illiteracy that controlled and limited most people for many centuries.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

You're slipping. Better cover that soft, white underbelly...

LOL. And the damned thing keeps expanding.

 

[hossenpepper]

LOL. And the damned thing keeps expanding.

Sigh... I know what ya mean, man. Jenny Craig can kiss my ass!

 

[roseannebarr]

Very impressive! I think you could fit our entire library on the steps of that thing. It only make sense for Bangor to have something as magnificent as this. Being home to one of the world’s most read and influential authors, it seems only appropriate that they complement his hometown with such a library. In addition, SK’s probably Bangor’s biggest tourist draw and such a library is probably a destiny for many of those tourists.

I was able to travel to Bangor early last year. I wish I would of known about the library back then! I wish someone in that town would design/create a map of SK sights/inspirations, locations. Went to the local bookstore and they were kind enough to highlight a few places to see. but nothing formal or organized! they have the winter home of the most prolific and exciting writer of the 20/21 st century. I should of done some homework before I went, but it was so unexpected, we had 1 day to fill before our flight and drove there from Hartford Conn. My wife loved the trip! I may soon turn her into a SK Fan herself!

 

[Neesy]

Thanks for the heads up--will alert the author....will be sure to pass along your photo so he'll know who to look for.

This one should do it!

 

[Neesy]

There is a virtual tour of the Bangor library. It is gorgeous. Skimom, we also had people in govt. blocking our need for a new library. We are the second largest city in my state. Our library was embarrassing! Someday we will have a gorgeous library that can have meeting rooms and I would love for them to include little theater to stage small plays. There are all sorts of ways to pull people into a library and also to earn money for rented space for events and things.

Thanks for the heads up!

Bangor Public library

It is a gorgeous library - so nice that he supports his local community.

(If you click on the link above you have to wait a bit for it to download)

Hey Robert Gray - if you have moved to Bangor by now - lucky you!

 

[king family fan]

If I ever get to go to Bangor. I must spend sometime at this library.

 

[hossenpepper]

I was able to travel to Bangor early last year. I wish I would of known about the library back then! I wish someone in that town would design/create a map of SK sights/inspirations, locations. Went to the local bookstore and they were kind enough to highlight a few places to see. but nothing formal or organized! they have the winter home of the most prolific and exciting writer of the 20/21 st century. I should of done some homework before I went, but it was so unexpected, we had 1 day to fill before our flight and drove there from Hartford Conn. My wife loved the trip! I may soon turn her into a SK Fan herself!

When we were there for King Kon 2013, we did the Tommyknockers Tour. Which, frankly, is the worst name for the tour as it's all about "It" and other stuff where Derry is involved. I guess maybe the "IT TOUR" isn't descriptive enough or something. But it takes you to several places that inspired characters and such. It was actually a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the cemetery part of the tour.