Hello all,
This week I ventured out to visit the doughboy statue on 2nd and Spring Garden streets. I know that in my intro to the statue, I would like to describe the area around the statue. It is right next to I-95 and down the street from a gentlemen’s club. I hung out at the park for a little while and noticed that most people who walked through it were just using it as a shortcut to get to the Spring Garden subway station. On the other side of the park is a spice and herb store that I went into, I asked a few cashiers what they knew about the statue or if any of them took care of it (I read online somewhere that the store had taken up the mantle of caring for the statue) but unfortunately no one really knew anything.
I have also spent this week book hunting. Since our library does not allow us to “be amongst the books,” I went to a few bookstores to get the book smell I was craving. Unfortunately the stores didn’t have anything good on my topic so I am going to have to tackle the beast that is bookbot.
The one good thing that came out of this week is that a professor I had in Australia finally replied and gave me some good starting sources so I will add them to my bookbot hunt. I have quite a few books digitally but it really doesn’t feel like a large research project without a stack of books next to me.
Definately time for the book bot! Remember if you live 40 miles away from campus, it sounds like they will mail them to you!