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There’s a lot of hoarders in my family. Fortunately, I’m not one. Well, except for photos. But I personally think of photos as “artistic curation.”
As I’ve visited various relatives over the years, it’s become clear to me that the tendency to accumulate what could politely be referred to as an excessive number of possessions particularly books and copies of
National Geographic clearly runs in the family. What is it about
National Geographics that make people hang on to them forever? I know people who have moved 12 times and, while the dining room set didn’t always make the cut, the
ELKTON â Teenage years are typically spent having fun with friends, driving parents crazy and, for most, experiencing a first job. For lifelong Cecil County resident Linda Peterson-Singleton, that first job was working for the Elkton branch of the Cecil County Public Library and eventually being assigned to work on the Bookmobile.
It was the summer of 1963, and Peterson-Singleton was 15 years old. She had made it through freshman year at Elkton Senior High School and was ready to return to her 50-cents-per-hour job at the library that she had loved so much from the summer before (Minimum wage at the time was $1.15).