Henry David Thoreau

Get out there and stick up for yourself and the people in your community! Our feature this month is a quick primer in Civil Resistance.  Barbara Lloyd McMichael describes what happened this summer when she participated in her library’s annual reading program Book Bingo. Manny Frishberg writes about the Ngombor Community Development Alliance, a new organization with roots in the West Nile region of Uganda, that is helping to educate smallholder farmers and traders. While we’re on the topic of education, please see my book review on Brian Dillon’s Essayism On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction. He is a writer’s writer who is a cut above all the rest of us. Even if you are not a writer, there is no harm in taking a glimpse at truly good writing. –Patricia Vaccarino