May 29, 1453 - Bust out your copy of The Trolley to Yesterday and read along as the Byzantines and their city of Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks - 553 years ago today!
Monday, May 29, 2006
A Look Back: the University of Notre Dame, 1955-56
File under:
20 century - 1950s,
places - indiana
I suspect you can call us enthusiasts with this: we’ve tracked down a copy of the 1955-56 Dome, the University of Notre Dame yearbook. We’ve thumbed through the thing and found a few items of interest, which we’ve highlighted below - plus with added commentary.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Book Alert: The House Where Nobody Lived
File under:
house where nobody lived,
names - strickland brad

Saturday, May 20, 2006
Tales of a Sixth-Grade Library
Jim Roeg asks what you were reading in sixth grade? He says he chose that year because it’s an awkward time for most.
“As the oldest kids in primary school, we’d just reached the pinnacle of the social hierarchy…and were about to slide right back down it, into the scary and unforgiving world of junior high.”
Sounds like Lewis Barnavelt in The Figure in the Shadows.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Memoriam: Elaine Lund
File under:
dedications,
memoriam,
places - michigan,
specter from the magician's museum

The Lunds were dedicates of Brad Strickland's The Specter from the Magician's Museum, in which Lewis and Rose Rita visit a similar museum in New Zebedee and stumble upon spells, scrolls, and spiders.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Book Alert: The House Where Nobody Lived
File under:
house where nobody lived,
names - strickland brad

Lewis Barnavelt and his best friend Rose Rita investigate a strange old house in their hometown and discover that they may be dealing with powerful ancient Hawaiian spirits.
Golden Time Conventions
File under:
fandom,
pedant and the shuffly,
places - massachusetts

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