Greg Hill
At the Library
Greg Hill is director of Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries.
Recent Stories
- Even Dame Julie devotees will admit the true sound of music is 'Ut, re, mi'
- Monday, April 28, 2008
- "Mary Poppins" and puberty both arrived for me about the same time, and once I would have devotedly followed the Julie Andrews Obsession Page.
- Birthday of the Bard turns out to be no commedia of errors
- Monday, April 21, 2008
- Our greatest English-language author found this time of year refreshing, writing that "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
- Amazing men make a difference in the world
- Monday, March 10, 2008
- “There are three kinds of people,” Mark Twain wrote in Following the Equator, “Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics.”
I’ve met a bunch of the former in the course of my library career and have often found them the most heartening. The latter faction, while making themselves more known than I prefer, are often entertaining. - 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica rings ‘trou’, even 97 years later
- Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
- Valentine’s Day is approaching, and this year I may send a mental Valentine to Horace Everett Hooper, the driving force behind the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.