In hands of teacher, literature has power

Because my little brother was asking a question about Miss Arp, director of the public library in Chamberlain when we were kids, I thought of Philip Nolan. The transition isn’t as odd as it may seem. Miss Arp — Katie, we called her behind her back but never to her face — ran the public library on the top floor of City Hall when two or three generations of Chamberlain people were kids. My brother, Kevin, wanted to know something more about her for a talk he was giving about reading.

By: Terry Woster, The Daily Republic