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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard Jane’s lending library sales pitch enough times that I could probably recite portions in my sleep. She is a passionate advocate for placing books in the hands of children — and others, for that matter — by building a network of lending libraries.… Read the rest
We were caught in a traffic jam trying to leave Granada. The cause: ten to twelve foot high dolls in huge dresses.
August 20, 2006.… Read the rest
Boy on horseback during the Festival of the Ascension of the Virgin. Granada, Nicaragua. August 20, 2006.… Read the rest
Helen Korengold and Carol Rea of Puedo Leer (I Can Read), the first lending library in Granada, which will open on Saturday, August 26.… Read the rest
Tipitapa is a small, impoverished community on the outskirts of Managua. So far, its Wikipedia entry contains only a single notable event ? a treaty signed 80 years ago ending one of the US?s numerous and unfortunate interventions in Nicaragua. To get to our destination, we drove over unpaved roads with massive ruts and puddles ?… Read the rest
