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There are so very many cultural concepts all tied up together in the Mississippi River. It's metaphorical tendrils extend into boyish adventure, modernist development, slavery and racism, changing transportation paradigms, great public works, commerce and trade, beautiful bridges, nature and wildlife, and so much more.

Humans have this amazing way of investing a single concept with a plethora of meanings, and that's wonderful to me. This picture makes me think, in some ways, of all of those things.

If I'm not mistaken, Posi has a photo of his own from this overlook that he had used as a custom design on a credit card!

Current Mood: thoughtful

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! May it be a wonderful time, whether you're enjoying a day to yourself, having a party with friends, or stuck at work. I hope your upcoming year is as better than the last!

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This is the Savanna public library. It's a Carnegie library, built in 1905.

Carnegie was by no means a perfect guy. I have some major issues with him. Still, he believed in the importance of using great personal wealth for community benefit. For one thing, he funded all these libraries all over the place! He said :

"Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for - public ends would work good to the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire’s unworthy life."