of leaf and lake: my Other True Pairing

Heaven knows why y'all humor me, but I adore you for it: it occurs to me that I've now badgered you all to produce collected enough tree- and tentacle-inspired fic that I ought to start an album for it. To wit:

( Squid and/or Willow-centric glee! )

Neither for nor by me, but too cool not to mention:
gnatkip's Pugilistic Plants page 137, "Whomping Willow".

Squid/Willow illustration by gojira65.

stumbling across history in the details

At my local public library, there are several pages in a 1963-4 volume of The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature that have had to be laminated, presumably due to frequency of use. The subjects they correspond to?

p. 1079 - "Justice, Administration of -- United States"

pp. 1091-6: "Kennedy, John Fitzgerald"

pp. 1407-8: "Negroes in the United States"

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The cover of the October 15, 1964 Library Journal features the headline, "Is it possible to be '...both a Goldwater Republican and a friend of the library'? -- see page 3926." Inside, the editors endorse LBJ and Humphrey.

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From the November 1962 issue of Wilson Library Bulletin, page 234: "With a circulation of only 1,000, it is clear that not every library buys even a single copy [of the ALA's Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom] for staff use. This is difficult to understand in a profession which exists to facilitate intellectual communication."

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The October 1, 1964 issue of Library Journal includes a collection of "lacerations" from John Cotton Dana, about whom Charles A. Goodrum admiringly wrote, "Here was a librarian who could have held his own with Mencken and Bierce. Give Mr. Dana a fountain pen and in 15 minutes you'd have blood all over the room."

( John Cotton Dana holdeth forth )

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[Current research subjects: Rose Leary Love and Frederic G. Melcher]