Book Sale at St Alphonsus

I love book sales and whenever I hear about one, I usually make an appearance, although I do not always buy. I really miss some of the used bookstores that helped me to build up my collection.

After my apartment caught fire around 2003, Dr. Diana gave me an entertainment center. Fr. Michael Clancy said something like, "This should hold all your books." He was not even close. I have ten bookcases full of books. Many of them are for references.

I am also very interested in history, not the history taught in school, but real history. I personally do not care to hear "Napoleon was going to lose the Battle of Waterloo." That means very little to me, no matter how one says it. Anybody who went to college with me will probably recognize the style of Professor June Broderick. Nobody ever did anything. Everybody was going to do something. But I still remember her to this day.

Instead of hearing about political leaders and what they did, I am more interested in what people really did. Tell me how you dealt with the heat in Baltimore in 1900 before electricity. How did we get along without cell phones 20 years ago? What did the kitchen table look like? These things are fascinating to me. It was also fascinating to look out the window from Fr. Saint John Neuman's bedroom.

I also did not know about the small chapel in St. Alphonsus until Saturday 22 November 2008 when I went to the book sale. I like the "Station of the Cross" icon.

Most of the people in the photos are members of my Saturday morning breakfast group. I also know some of them from the St. Maximos Society here in Baltimore.