![]() ![]() He wanted a martini, wondered if a nonmember could get service at the bar. So he went down the narrow yacht club road, nearly broke his neck as he hit a series of terrific bumps put in the road to discourage speeders, to kill them, if possible. ![]() The librarian told him that he had a chance of catching several directors all at once, if he would go to the Barnstable Yacht Club. There was a Cabot on the list-and a Lowell and a Kittredge, and some others. He was advised to take his astonishment to some of the library's directors. He said many important things had happened since 1938, naming, among others, penicillin and Hitler's invasion of Poland. And he pointed out to the easily alarmed librarian that the library's most recent general reference work was a 1938 Britannica, backstopped by a 1910 Americana. Not very long ago, an encyclopedia salesman stopped by America's oldest library building, which is the lovely Sturgis Library in Barnstable Village, on Cape Cod's north shore. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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