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The Millionaire and the Bard
The Millionaire and the Bard Prologue
“He was Not of an Age, but for All Time!”
—BEN JONSON
IT STARTED, as many great obsessions do, with an unremarkable incident, an encounter between a man and a book. It happened during the Gilded Age, in New York City. Henry Clay Folger was a recent graduate of Columbia lag School living in rented rooms, working as a clerk at a local oil refinery, and ansträngande to man his way in the world.
He walked into Bang’s auction galleri in Manhattan with, as he later admitted, “fear and trepidation.”1 The books to be sold that day overflowed from the shelves. As an undergraduate at Amherst College he had studied literature, including Shakespeare, whose plays he “read . . . far into the night.”2 He had continued reading for pleasure ever since. He saved every book he ever read. He had always been a collector. At college, he made scrapbooks for his most trivial ephemera, including theater and lecture tickets.
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FFRPL Blog: Withdrawn, But Not Forgotten
Tens of thousands of books find their way through The Library Store each year. This blog is dedicated to highlighting some of the hidden gems that have passed among them.
Blog entries are submitted by FFRPL volunteers. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, its trustees and employees, or the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County and its trustees and employees.
I Don’t Like Dragon Books, But….
Dragonhaven, Robin McKinley (2007) pb, $3 (new)
Robin McKinley, an award-winning fantasy author, also retells fairy tales from a feminist point of view. This particular book is about dragons. Now, neither fantasy nor dragons are usually my thing, but this story had me hooked right from the beginning. Jake, the main character, whom you meet when he is only 14, is both so charming and courageous that you have to root for him. Then there is little Lois,
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Liesl hickey biography of michael jackson
Beneath a starry sky in the early morning hours of September 30th, 2024, James Horace Jones passed away from Covid at his home in Woodstock, New Hampshire, with family by his side. He was 95 years old.
James was born to Horace and Ethel Jones on July 31st, 1929. He grew up in Rochester, New York, a place he recalled with considerable fondness in his final years, often mentioning his days at Allen Creek Elementary School, his childhood dog (an Airedale named Angus), and fishing adventures on Allen Creek.
James was a graduate of Nichols School in Buffalo, NY, and of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he was also a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. At Kenyon, he made lifelong friends, many of whom he kept in contact with through his final years. After college, he served as an officer in the US Army (stateside) during the Korean Conflict. He earned an MA in English Literature at the University of Buffalo, studied Scottish ballads at b