Reading was mainly part of school learning for me until the fifth grade, ten years old, when my Aunt Grace who lived in Denver, Colorado came to visit us one year here in Cleveland during the summer of 1962. It was a memorable visit because she exposed me to another way of learning. It was us three cousins, Aunt Grace escorted to the library that summer afternoon. Now, I had been on field trips to the community library with my teacher and classmates before, but I had never been to the Cleveland Public Library, main, downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was love at first sight! The library smelled of knowledge, as I looked up and up to see columns of books in neat rows. It was quiet people sat reading books, magazines, and even the newspaper just relaxing in various types of chairs. Aunt Grace walked us into the children’s section. She instructed us to pick two books each. I walked around touching books that sat in nice little organized rows at my height. I finally decided on two books. I ran up to my Aunt in excitement she looked at my choices and smiled. The three of us all had our two books. We carried the books up to the check out counter where the clerk took them to be processed for borrowing. She opened the back of each book and removed the card out of each pocket, and begin to date stamp each slip...
Be sure to come back next week for Part 2 of Sakinah's story.
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