[Magdalen] Book fiends (was Re: Life's challenges)

[Molly Wolf]

Time for a subject line shift.

I knew (briefly) Shirley Jackson's daughter Sarah, aka Sal.  Ms Jackson had died about a year before, and Sal lived with her father Stanley Edgar Hymen in a vast and shaggy Victorian house in North Bennington.  Hyman taught at Bennington College.  I was in that house a handful of times.  Rumour had it that they had 100,000 books, and that he knew where every single one of them was.  Wouldn't have surprised me any.  Cleaning out that house after his death would have been a formidable task.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Things could be worse. We've visited Carl Sandburg's home near Hendersonville, NC, which, as the NPS notes "The home bends under the weight of nearly 15,000 books." IIRC, the hallways are lined with floor-to-ceiling bookcases. And, also IIRC, they had to get rid of about half their books before they moved there.
> 
> I think we may only have a couple thousand.   ;-)
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message----- From: Marion Thompson
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 12:13 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Life's challenges
> 
> I think it will be both/and for a lot of stuff.  So much will depend on
> where I end up after the initial leaving and temporary situation.  Books
> are so personal!  When I moved to England 'forever', although my brother
> took a lot of my books, I took ten boxes with me and brought them back
> again 13 months later.  The basic library that is still with me -- plus
>