Jim Gulledge, Author

THE POWER OF A LIBRARY CARD

When I was a ten year old boy, it was an eight block ride on my new orange, banana-seated Schwinn bicycle to the reaches of outer space and to the bottom of the sea.

That previous summer my mom had gotten me my first library card, and shortly after that I discovered Jules Verne and air-conditioning at the Rock Hill Public Library.

Changed my life.