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Some friends and colleagues have invited me and you to support this wonderful documentary that tells of the post-War innovation we all benefit from of Holocaust survivor Henry Glass and his wife Elly Glass. This is your chance to help ...Read More

Elly Glass Film Fundraiser

California, it turns out, has too many Chihuahuas. New York City does not have enough. So animal welfare officials in San Francisco and Manhattan arranged for what a Virgin America press release dubbed a “Chihuahua airlift” — 15 homeless dogs ...Read More

Doggy Arbitrage

The year was 1963, President Kennedy had started the race to the moon, and tween boys and their Dads needed to learn all about the engineering involved to be good Americans. This book, found last weekend at the Porterville Friends ...Read More

Gyroscopes – What they are and how they work + BONUS War Story

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Another curious find at the Porterville Friends of the Library "Dusty Book" sale: This mass paperback autobiography ("as told to Richard G. Hubler") . Published in 1965, probably at the beginning of his campaign to become Governor of California, this ...Read More

Where’s the Rest of Me? The Ronald Reagan Story

I thought I would share a few thoughts on the books I picked up at the once-a-month booksale here in Porterville this month. Oh now that we have been going for about 4 months, we look forward to the first-Saturday ...Read More

Earl Weaver – Winning!

  • Written by Barry Caplan.
  • Posted on 8 Jan ’10.
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Welcome to 2010. I have a bunch of fun curiosities from Porterville to share with you over the next few months, starting tonight as I hang out in Starbucks. Found old photos and news stories, books from the once-a-month cellar ...Read More

Hi Readers! Long time no see!