[Alumni-chat] Use Amazon.Com used book sales service or Inter-Library Loan services at public and/or academic libr

[YAZZ Allen]

Jan. 8, 08
 
Hi from Yazz (David) Allen '66 (Email me at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com):
 
Thanks to Freda Bluestone '65 (I knew Freda in the early 60's and remember her by her maiden name) for the update and news about Peg Brackern's passing.  RIP, Peg!
 
Her books live on, including out of print ones.
WWW.Amazon.Com sells used books with amazing efficiency at astonishingly low prices.  When they say a used book is available for 99 cents plus (not much) postage, they mean it.  You have to use a credit card (I avoid doing that unless I'm forced to...always send a money order for Internet purchases of anything).
 
But the goods get delivered in days, including PEG BRACKEN's great books, esp. the Old Age book.
 
ALSO, remember that public and academic libraries, while definitely dying, are NOT dead (yet), and "Inter Library Loan" services are still available, though increasingly, one has to explain to reference desk librarians what that is, and maybe insist on talking to a library supervisor on duty when the Reference Librarians states she or he "never heard of something called "Inter-Library Loan.'"
 
It's free and it works, though slowly.
 
 
Again, sad to hear of Peg's passing.  She was a great lady, and her legacy of published humor and wisdom will go on for centures, no doubt.  A gread Antiochian, for sure.
 
Best, 
Yazz Allen '6

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Contact "Yazz" (David) Allen directly via email at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com, mail to 644 Shrewsbury Commons Ave., #239, Shrewsbury PA USA 17361...Phone (717) 235 - 1982!
 
See my pro movie actor photos and recent credits/resume by visiting WWW.IMDb.Com (world's largest movie info database, owned by Amazon.Com) IMDb RESUME.  Also WWW.SAG.Org "IActor" file.  Also WWW.CastingNetworks.Com and/or WWW.NYCasting.Com. > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:45:30 -0500> From: fbb6 at columbia.edu> To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu> Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] Peg Bracken, Antioch '40, author of best seller I HATE TO COOK BOOK writes about old age as a comedy experience!> CC: fbb6 at columbia.edu> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, YAZZ ALLEN wrote:> > > Peg Bracken, Antioch College, Ohio '40 is about 90 years old these days > > if she's still with us (I hope she is....I was in email contact with her > > about 5 years ago, and she described a relatively recent stop-by visit > > to Antioch in Ohio trip she made and her reactions to how things had > > changed since her pre-WWII times as a teen at Antoch). When she and I > > were in contact, she lived in Oregon with her husband.> > [etc.]> > Sad to say, she died within the last few months; I saw an obituary in the > New York Times.> > I love her stuff. She has a fabulously funny one called _The I Hate to > Cook Almanack: Peg Bracken's Book of Days_, circa 1976. I know the > feeling of being kicked out of the library for laughing too hard!> > The book on old age seems to be out of print -- we need to bring it back!> > Freda Bluestone Birnbaum, '65> _______________________________________________> Alumni-chat mailing list> Alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu> http://w3.antioch.edu/mailman/listinfo/alumni-chat> Visit http://www.Antioch-College.edu today!
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