Hi Graham
Thanks for letting us all know the outcome of our attempts to save the
Kensal Rise library and the Dollis Hill House. It was a sad business. I am a
librarian as well as a "Twainiac" so I felt a double blow. I have just
retired  from the Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut, which Mark
Twain himself established in 1908 ; a library much beloved by the community
it serves.
Perhaps an apt memorial could be taken from a letter Twain wrote to the
Millicent Rogers Library in 1894, "A public library is the most enduring of
memorials, the truest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or
an affection; for it, and it alone, is respected by wars and revolutions,
and survives them".
Thanks for all your efforts in this battle; the war has not been lost.
Heather Morgan.


----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Durham
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:38 am
Subject: Sad days in London and Detroit
To: [log in to unmask]

> I would like to thank all on the Forum who joined our twenty
> year fight to =
> save Dollis Hill House in NW London.Sadly the House where Mark
> stayed in 19=
> 00 was demolished today - the same local authority(Brent) has
> also closed=
> Kensal Rise library which Twain opened during this stay.
> We also note that campaigners in Detroit are battling to save
> libraroes inc=
> luding the Mark Twain library.( see Fox News-Detroit)=20
> Clearly the barbarians are amongst us - can anyone find a
> suitable epitaph =
> from Twain ?
> Graham Durham - London=20
>
>
> > Date: Fri=2C 20 Jan 2012 10:28:51 -0500
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Bard College invites teachers of American literature
> to the 2012=
> IWT Curriculum Conversation
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >=20
> > N.B.: I am posting this on behalf of Bard College. Please
> direct queries =
> to
> > the e-mail address at the end of this message. Kevin B.
> >=20
> > ~~~~~
> >=20
> > The Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College invites
> teachers of
> > American literature to the 2012 IWT Curriculum Conversation:
> >=20
> > Mark Twain=92s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Facing the
> Challenge of
> > Teaching an American Classic
> >=20
> > Despite the controversy it has provoked since its publication
> in the Unit=
> ed
> > States in 1885=2C Huckleberry Finn has nonetheless been a
> cornerstone in =
> the
> > secondary and college curriculum for generations. In this=2C
> the fourth a=
> nnual
> > IWT Curriculum Conversation=2C writing-to-learn practices are
> the startin=
> g
> > points for a rigorous reading of Huckleberry Finn=2C for
> multiple reading=
> s
> > through the lens of other texts=97fiction as well as
> nonfiction=2C litera=
> ry as
> > well as historical=97and for looking closely at how the text
> teaches stud=
> ents
> > about irony=2C history=2C language=2C and thinking. Join us to
> learn inno=
> vative
> > approaches to reading and teaching what Toni Morrison calls
> =93this amazi=
> ng=2C
> > troubling book.=94
> >=20
> > Friday=2C March 16=2C 2012
> > 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
> > Bard College
> > Annandale-on-Hudson=2C New York
> > Fee: $140 (includes morning coffee=2C lunch=2C and anthology of
> > cross-disciplinary readings)
> >=20
> > For online registration and full details about this and other
> Institute> programs=2C visit: www.writingandthinking.org or
> contact Judi Smith at
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