Ottawa Library History Highlights and Modern Rebirth
National Library Week invites patrons to Ottawa Library for coffee donuts and new cards. The history traces from 1870 Ladies Reading Club to Ottawa Free Library, Carnegie funding in 1902, 1903 dedication, later relocations, and 1996 move to Hickory Street with automation in 2001. Miss Julia Walsh featured in history notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa Library
Carnegie
City Park
Franklin County
Kansas
Ottawa
Barbara Dew
Ladies’ Reading Club
Ottawa Library Association
T.C. Sears
Julia Walsh
Andrew Carnegie
Ottawa Free Library
George P. Washburn
Miss Walsh
Carnegie Free Library
Carnegie Foundation
Hickory Street
Satire of Gone With the Wind tests copyright law
AP reports a copyright clash as Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, faces a legal bid from the late author’s trust to block publication. Critics note parody limits for full novels while defenders call it a biting critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Moby-Dick
Rebecca
Margaret Mitchell
Stephens Mitchell
Alice Randall
Tom Selz
Mitchell Trusts
Randall
Houghton Mifflin
Wendy Strothman
Atlanta
Mitchell
Cynara
Tata
Scarlett O'Hara
Ashley
Melanie Wilkes
Strothman
Columbia University Law
Jane Ginsburg
Dryden
Milton
Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov
Lolita
When Duty Calls is Faith DeVeaux Vietnam novel
Topekan author Faith DeVeaux writes a year in Vietnam through letters from an Army chaplain to his wife. The fictional story centers the Anderson family and follows Anita's effort to reunite kin and help Tom emerge from a coma. Donations go to VA Hospitals in New York Los Angeles and Topeka and to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation. Available in stores and online including Amazon Barnes & Noble and iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-15162-0 110 pages $9.95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita Diament
Dinah
Jacob
Ahab
Lena Peter Naslund
Moby- Dick
Jean Rhys
Sargasso Sea
Jane Eyre
Peter Carey
Jack Mages
Magwitch
Charles Dickens
John Updike
Gertrude and
Claudius
Hamiet
T. Caraghessan Boyle
Topekan
Vietnam
Faith DeVeaux
Anderson
Anita Anderson
Tom
New York
Los Angeles
Topeka
New Jersey
Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation
Amazon.com
Barnesandnoble.com
Writers Club Press
iUniverse.com
Also Mentioned on This Page
ex-Ladies Reading Club
Heidi van der Heuvel
Gece
Sand Creek
Sand Creek Road
Www
Orsheln Town & Country
Curt Pate
Town & Country
Princeton Drive
Equine Series
Rurina
Orsheln Town & Country Supply
Brummel Farm Service
Garnett, KS
Orscheln Jo
Princeton Rd
Ovtawa
Local Freedom Unlimited
Alltel
Alltel Hetail
14Th Street
Emporia
Industrial
Alltel Corporation
Kyocera
Phana
Omment
Garden City
W. Mary St
Beng
Hutchinson
N. Main
Suile
Oller
Lena Lee
Lola
Slate St
Hacogee
Mannatten
Fort Riley Blvd
Ottewa
Pittabur
Salina
ATS
Wal-Mart
S. Ohio St
Wiotfeld
Main
Lise
Ville. Aaderal
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!