Attribution: Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and everyone else in pausing to honor the librarians on this special day.
With grandson Bud Andrews a librarian in LaCrosse and with memories of his librarian mother in Barron where he grew up, the keeper has these family connections.
But as a practical matter there is the role played by librarians throughout the keeper’s many years of writing newspaper columns. The joke is that the local tavern was most often the source of column material, but the truth is it was much more likely to be the local library. The keeper could not count the times when a column deadline loomed as he roamed the circulation area without a column subject or one that needed development and a kindly librarian stepped up to save the day, or the night.
In an unfamiliar town on a dark night the local librarian was an automatic friend, anxious to provide whatever help requested. The keeper loved all of them and still does.
As a voracious reader Phyllis has a lifelong appreciation of librarians and is friends with the Vista West Librarians, among them Jane B, Jane S, and Lois K. all who recently oversaw a move to a much-improved location for the VW library.
Go librarians! You represent the outer limits of civilization and truth, and without you we are dull-witted sheep!
Photo by Bill Stokes