Showing posts with label Rocky Mountain Land Library. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Nature, a Dream and 32,000 Books


Jeff Lee photo
Jeff Lee and Ann Martin have a dream.

For more than 20 years, Jeff Lee, 60 and Ann Martin, 53, have worked at a Denver bookshop, The Tattered Cover, squirreling away their paychecks in the pursuit of a single dream: a rural, live-in library where visitors will be able to connect with two increasingly endangered elements – the printed word and untamed nature. (Julie Turkewitz, The New York Times, 4/17/15)

The couple was inspired by a visit to the Gladstone Library in Wales, where the 250,000 volume collection was originally founded to house William Gladstone’s collection of Victorian history and theology.