(27 quotes found)
“It was the kind of summer where everything went out big, dropped and went away. You didn't have a lot of sleepers with big legs --as they say long legs -- in the business.”
Anne Thompson
“That was the impetus behind writing it, was to have the collection be more accessible to more people,”
Ann Thompson
“Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realize we are a repository. They don't have to give them to us in their lifetime. They can will them to us.”
“They were wealthy and there have to be more.”
“Not just employing people, ... but arts, entertainment, recreation, the library, beautification projects (planting trees throughout town), mayor (for much of the 1880s). He had a finger in everything.”
“It is snobbery, basically, ... People think you would have to have a university education at least to write as he does.”
“It's quite old. Perhaps 175 years old.”
“We even had discussions on chapters that didn't take place, like 'Lake Activities,' ... We combined that into entertainment.”
“We are trying to narrow down to the minimum that we feel we need before we put a cost out there.”
“We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their last resort before going into foster care. Sometimes our talks in circle-ups (around campfires) are so heart-touching that we all cry.”
