![]() ![]() The plain but modern Wood County Library across town replaced it when I was in fourth grade. My earliest memories of books as treasure come from preschool visits to our Carnegie Library, a wonderland of opaque glass-brick floors, huge columns, and a spiral metal staircase. Lucky for me, I was an introvert and a reader. ![]() For the first years of my childhood, it seemed like nothing important had happened in the decades since, except maybe my parents’ divorce. A century later, Mother Jones was jailed in town. After killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804, Aaron Burr holed up at a mansion a mile away on Blennerhassett Island, embracing a mission to commit high treason or liberate Mexico, depending on how you bake the facts. ![]() Parkersburg, West Virginia, where I grew up, sits on land that was once home to the Shawnee and later belonged to George Washington. ![]()
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