Comments on: Old, but not forgotten. http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/06/old-but-not-forgotten/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: ronnie ray jenkins http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/06/old-but-not-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-36207 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:30:54 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8829#comment-36207 Growing up in the hills of Pennsylvania one of my fondest memories was the noise of the loud and rickety old Bookmobile driven by a woman who volunteered to drive it, and to be the librarian. It was inside that big old step van where we could borrow a book, until the next time she came around, then trade it off for another. On the shelves staring back at me was adventure. It was in a copy of one of Jack London’s books where I first read the short story, “To Build A Fire.”

It was also when I discovered that as hot as the summer nights were, reading that story could make me shiver as if I was in the Arctic cold. The Bookmobile was an escape to other places, and times, and something, I will not forget.

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