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About books and libraries... For
as long as I can remember, books and libraries have always been important to me.
Some of my clearest memories as a child are riding the bus with my mother
and brother to the public library in Beaumont, Texas, the town in which I grew
up. These
trips began in the 1950s and were the highlights of my life at the time.
We would enter the library from the street and scamper up a set of
winding stairs to the second floor children’s section.
There, with my mother and the help of a librarian, my brother and I would
check out an arm-load of books.
The books that I selected almost always focused on history or
prehistory--World Wars I and II, paleontology, dinosaurs, the Civil War,
American Revolution, whatever. After arriving back home, my brother and I would
pour over our books, talk about them, and then repeat the process a week later.
My memories are not of a single book that shaped my life but of
books collectively that helped define who I am and what I do.
You see, I have managed to blend my love of books with my love of history
to become an associate director of libraries at UTA and a professor of history. --
Gerald Saxon |
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