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Originally Posted by fw102807
I am glad that you made it here to The Villages where it must be NOTHING but the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Do like the Villages a great deal and not for NOTHING. Always quite happy when returning and sad when leaving. I have a number of relatives still in Reno, Nevada and it has changed a great deal since I last saw it in 1994. Was there also in 1989 for a law librarian convention where I was kind of a star having been introduced as the cataloger of all the computer databases on WESTLAW. I had just graduated from law school and arranged to move in with my new roommate the woman I had as a student under me at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. I was connected to Stillwater which does not house murderers. I refused to help convicted murderers back then. I think I did end up getting involved with one's case at Oak Park Heights but am not sure.
I played hooky during the convention and went to see
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and ran into one of my Philosophy professors from the University of Nevada, Reno and also bumped into a second one at the MGM Grand or whatever it was called in 1989. I walked there and back about six miles in total reliving various good and bad experiences. The U of MN Law Library/School paid for the hotel, meals, air plane transportation, etc. Not the movie, though, of course.
These law librarian conventions play a huge role in stuff I do as do the lawyer, doctor, psychiatrist, social worker, and public/college/university library conventions.
The one coming up this Summer for law librarians would be a very interesting place to have a fly with a microphone.