Robin Chapman News
Looking Here and There From the Twenty-First Century
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Lunch With the Queen: A Stanford Student Remembers
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Soldiers Battled Pandemic in Waning Days of World War I
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Alfred Hitchcock and his Northern California Connection
Monday, August 9, 2021
The Peninsular Railway: Electric Tech Ahead of Its Time
Thursday, January 21, 2021
A DC Reporter Looks Back After a Riot Shocked the World
Monday, September 14, 2020
Surviving Covid? You May Need the Little Free Library!
At far left, the book which helped me discover a talented relative of Robert Louis Stevenson, a book I found in a Little Free Library. At right, one of the Little Free Libraries in my neighborhood.
We are all missing lots of things that were once regular features of our lives before the recent pandemic. I often miss going to the local YMCA, where I had a set of "workout" friends I never saw in any other place. They were my gym friends. I miss going to restaurants and socializing. And, for many months I missed my local library, which is now open for online ordering and pickup only. What to read? Well, you just begin to look everywhere for books, and this, as it turns out brought me a treat. Click the link for my recent column!