Our library system is the most democratic institution we have. Anyone can get a library card. Anyone can learn all that they want. It's only in recent history that books have been available to the masses and we take that for granted.
Yet we still can't purchase all the books and other information we want. Libraries are the great equalizer.
My old pal Joe was born in a poor neighborhood and he practically lived in his local branch. One summer he began reading every book in the library, one after the other.
He has the best vocabulary of anyone I ever met and is today a government lawyer in DC.
We all have our library stories.
Read Amy Kenneley's story and then get out there and let the Governor know not to cut library funding.
