Riverside Library, Spanish Lookout
In a quiet corner of Gnadenfeld village where Baltimore Drive and Riverside Road meet, is Riverside Library, one of Spanish Lookout's two or three libraries. The blond-haired young mother who owns it greeted us warmly and cheerfully then assisted us in locating the specific books. Set inside a shipping container/trailer, it doesn't look like much from the outside but after all, it's the inside that matters and for those interested in the quaint and odd off the beaten path, it sure contains a trove of literary treasures which delighted our little bookworms.
There is that cozy, warm thrill that runs up your spine and down your arms when a new door suddenly opens and the first thing you see is row after row of books to choose from. You know that everything will work out for good in the end, you know that earlier you and your sibling were quarreling and that Mommy had to carry out something that caused your rear end to smart, you know there's chores to do back home but for now, your eyes are hungrily feasting on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, on The House on the Cliff, Little Town on the Prairie, on a host of other miniature doors which are ready to transport you to far away lands of olden days where kings were the norm and magic was the rule, or into the not so distant past when natives and white people forged friendships or fought bitter wars, or when children played among ruins even though the sight and sound of bombs during a world war was all around them.
The end result was a stack of books carried home for this family of bookworms.
A. Mendoza
