Retiring Guy's Digest

Monday, February 22, 2021

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Norman Golb of Dead Sea Scrolls fame

New York Times, 2/15/2021

But Norman Golb, a maverick professor at the University of Chicago, took issue with that thesis, and in time he galvanized a few other scholars to question it as well.
He argued that the scrolls encompassed the thinking of diverse communities of Jews in the Holy Land, not just a fringe sect, and that they had originally been moved from libraries in Jerusalem to the caves near Qumran to safeguard them from the anticipated Roman siege of the city in A.D. 70. The scrolls, he said, suggested that Christianity arose out of a dynamic and rapidly evolving Jewish culture rather than from a single narrow offshoot.

The 48 member libraries of LINKcat

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2021

Mary Catherine Bateson. (1/26)

Kim Chernin. (1/10)

Christina Crosby. (1/31)

Eric Jerome Dickey. (1/9)

Scott Donaldson. (1/11)

James R. Flynn. (1/30)

Larry Flynt. (2/12/2021)

Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor. (2/18/2021)

James Gunn. (2/21/2021)

Robert L. Herbert (2/12)

Ved Mehta. (1/12)

Sharon Kay Penman. (2/8/)

Deborah Rhode. (1/28)

James Ridgeway. (2/16)

Charles Saunders. (2/4)

Bryan Sykes. (1/14)

2020
Patricia Bosworth. (4/6)

Ben Bova. (12/17)
Mary Higgins Clark. (2/4)
Clive Cussler. (2/29)

Betty Dodson (11/11)
David Graeber. (9/6)
Shirley Ann Grau. (8/11)
Pete Hamill. (8/6)

Shere Hite. (9/13)
A, E, Hotchner. (2/18)
Roger Kahn. (2/15)

Randall Kenan. (9/29)

John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)
Johanna Lindsey. (1/15)

Barry Lopez. (12/29)

Alison Lurie. (12/7)
Sylvia Jukes Morris. (1/20)
Charlers Portis. (2/19)

Julia Reed. (9/8)
John Rothchild. (1/22)
Gail Sheehy. (9/3)
George Steiner. (2/6)

Jill Paton Walsh. (11/29)
Charles Webb. (6/30)
Elizabeth Wurtzel. (1/11)

2019
Warren Adler. (4/23)
Kate Braverman. (10/28)
Stephen Dixon. (11/12)
Ernest J. Gaines. (11/8)
Dan Jenkins. (3/10)
Judith Krantz. (6/27)
Paule Marshall. (8/27)
Robert K. Massie. (12/4)
Martin Mayer. (8/3)
Wright Morris. (7/25)
Toni Morrison. (8/12)
Anthony Price. (6/17)
James I. Robertson. (11/20)
Anne Rivers Siddons. (9/19)
John Simon. (12/1)
Sol Stein. (9/30)
Brad Watson. (8/2)
Lonnie Wheeler. (7/15)
Herman Wouk. (5/20)
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970. (6/18)

2018
Neal Thompson. (6/17)
Barbara Kafka. (6/8)
Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries? (6/2)

2017
Aline Countess of Romanones. (12/17)
Kit Reed. (10/1)
Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library. (9/8)

2016
E. M. Nathanson. (4/10)

2015
Gunter Grass (1927-2015). (4/15)

2014
Thomas Berger (1924-2014). (7/23)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) (4/8)

2013
Barbara Branden. (12/26)

Owl Creek neighborhood: Have never understood why anyone thought it was a good idea to locate low-income housing in such an isolated area

Orange arrow indicates location of Owl Creek. Red arrows note the locations of nearest full-serivce grocery stores.

Google Maps

Wisconsin State Journal, 2/221/2021

The city has been struggling to boost the Owl Creek neighborhood since it was created near a wetlands area behind industrial buildings Southeast of the Beltline and Highway 51 in the mid-2000s. The Owl Creek subdivision, 94 lots including five lots of open space, stalled in the Great Recession, with less than half of the development completed at the 39-acre site.

In 2014, the city stepped in to buy 51 remaining lots for $510,000, used six of them to develop a neighborhood park, and is only now moving to sell 16 of the remaining lots in a first phase to complete the housing project.

One of Madison's least walkable neighborhoods.