Member: donkelly68

Don,

Thanks for your kind words and for sharing some of your reminiscences with me. And thanks, especially, for your support of the Houston LGBT museum and archives!

Best,

Gerard

posted by gkoskovich at 1:53 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009

Don,

I see that you're the only other LibraryThing member with a copy of J. D. Mercer's They Walk in Shadow (1959). You might want to take a look at the listing for my copy: I provide the real name of the author, his birth and death dates, and some details about his biography (among other things, he co-owned the first gay bookstore in the United States).

Best regards,

Gerard Koskovich
San Francisco

posted by gkoskovich at 1:20 am (EST) on Jan 1, 2009

Don:

I bought the book because, many many years ago, I did a paper for a grad-level class on the local politics of a particular regional planning agency; my county had seceded, and I wanted to know why. Did the study while the discussions were going on, and collected several interesting books because I needed to know the intellectual underpinnings of the dispute. Still can't say whether the secession was right or wrong; as is often the case, local politics has its own logic and its own drivers. The county commission felt as though someone had backed them into a corner, and they were left with a bunch of bad options. For better or for worse, they chose the option with the loudest bang.

There was a lot of paranoia in the decision, and an enormous amount of pressure from some other political actors. An interesting month. The paper was pretty good; one of my friends built a seminar around it. I was appropriately flattered.

Then I turned into a state government bureaucrat with no action in that particular arena. So it goes. Still glad I wrote the paper.

And baseball's coming. I promise.

joel

posted by jowo at 11:28 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

Just a note to say that I didn't expect to find anyone else with The Regionalist Papers....

posted by jowo at 3:41 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2008