In digital times, news is, well, always. If it happens, there’s a good chance you’ll know about it almost immediately, depending on how discerning you are about choosing your news sources.
The book festival observed its 20th anniversary this year. As always, the celebration involved readers listening to and talking with writers about poetry, history, fiction, politics and everything else you can imagine.
I remember at the 1968 Tyndall meet hearing talk about how girls weren’t strong enough to run more than half a mile. Well, it didn’t take too long to show what a load of nonsense that kind of talk was.
Somewhere, I also used to see sheets that showed which agency got billed for the flight, too, with the cost often divided among agencies, depending on who the passengers were.
