Yes, you read that right. Carbondale has a bookstore again. White River Books is located on Second Street, between Main Street and the Rio Grande Trail. Owner Izzy Stringham said, since welcoming her first customers on March 3, “pretty much everyone is over the moon that there’s a bookstore back in town.” Carbondale has not […]
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Recommended Reading: “The Summer of Lost Letters”
By Jamie Dale GCPLD Youth Services Coordinator As a child, I would often leave fake love letters hidden in the walls of houses while we were moving out. I wanted desperately to find one of these hidden messages myself; to have the joy and intrigue of solving a mystery and learning of a secret, tragic […]
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Exploring colonial literature
By Carlos Herrera Montero Para leer Flores y Cantos en Español, siga el enlace. As we previously saw, the process of conquering the lands that peoples and cultures previously inhabited in “the new world” (which would later be called the American continent) was an intense and ruthless process. It was marked, basically, by greed in […]