Half a Library: 6 Libraries That Changed My Life
A new library is born. Hard-working librarian who made a half a library into a whole. In 1775, James Boswell wrote, “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” I’ve turned over half a dozen libraries in the service of my current work-in-progress, but library fever started much earlier. After all, […]
Rituals for Starting Work: medieval construction, coal mining, printing presses
Medieval construction workers building Schloss Horst. ©Laurel Decher, 2015 Over the weekend, I visited a castle, the Schloss Horst Museum in Gelsenkirchen, a printing press, the Historische Druckwerkstatt that offered a trip to the age of lead, and a coal mine, Bergbaustollen Nordsternpark. Schloss Horst turned out to be a museum that drops you into […]