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Check in frequently to read the behind-the-scenes scoop on the Newberry’s popular Book Fair. The blog is maintained by “Uncle Blogsy,” otherwise known as Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
What's Hiding Under the Stairs
The question came up again last week. “Somebody told me my grandfather had really valuable books and I was just going to give them all to you and now I don’t know what to do what should I do?” That’s a pretty good ques
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Summit-Time, and the Living is....
One of the useful things about the Harry Potter books is the occasional phrase or incantation useful in one’s daily life. Ron Weasley, for example, provided me with the perfect testimonial for all those of you who dropped of
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Blue Friday
So we have this NATO Summit coming up, and paranoia is masquerading as common sense, and I get four estates in in a two-day period, so that I can break up the life work of an assortment of book collectors. Between the notes
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Attic Ephemera
“That was a great column on Monday. I never thought of giving you photographs, Uncle Blogsy!”
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Treasure Among the Snaps
I would like to speak to you all seriously about a very important topic.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Working for the Weekend
So we have this NATO Summit coming up, and everybody is going into “Better Safe Than Sorry” mode. “You can’t be too careful,” people tell me. You can, actually, but let’s not quibble on such a nice day.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Blue Skies, Smurfin' at Me
I see that in May, 2011 that I declared I was having a Smurf Singalong sort of month, a month of bizarre and unexpected occurrences, a month of donations that might not be moneymakers but were at least memorable, a month when I could hear tiny blue lips singing “Happy Smu
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home
All right, all right: in response to popular demand, I shall pause in my explanation of the Manager’s philosophy behind all the subject headings at the Book Fair. I’m not sure whether it’s the glimpse into a Blogsy brain tha
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Friday, May 4, 2012
More of What's Where
I knew this would happen, of course. Response to Wednesday’s blog, in which I tried to explain the principles behind our Biography section, brought forth a certain amount of comment, most of which ran along the lines of the
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
This Is Their Life
So I had a customer come up to me at a Book fair back in the 20th century and ask, “Where would I find a biography of George Washington? In History?”
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