BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Downtown -- Planet Word -- Exhibit: The Library

DC -- Downtown -- Planet Word -- Exhibit: The Library:

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Enter a magical library where books come to life before your eyes. Find the hidden door to a serene poetry nook, and discover other secrets hidden in the stacks.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WORDLB_201112_006.JPG: El Deafo Cece Bell
2. WORDLB_201112_019.JPG: Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
3. WORDLB_201112_021.JPG: To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
4. WORDLB_201112_023.JPG: Debbie Allen Dancing in the Wings Pictures by Kadir Nelson
5. WORDLB_201112_033.JPG: The Lorax Dr. Seuss
6. WORDLB_201112_036.JPG: Vietnamerica GB Tran
7. WORDLB_201112_037.JPG: The Way Things Work Now David Macaulay
8. WORDLB_201112_053.JPG: Banned Books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. WORDLB_201112_062.JPG: A 20th Century Alice The Phantom Tollbooth
10. WORDLB_201112_067.JPG: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
11. WORDLB_201112_085.JPG: If librarians were honest, they wouldn't smile, or act welcoming. They would say, You need to be careful. Here be monsters. They would say. These rooms house heathens and heretics, murderers and maniacs, the deluded, desperate, and dissolute. ... If librarians were honest, they would say, No one spends time here without being changed. Maybe you should go home. While you still can. -- Joe Mills
12. WORDLB_201112_086.JPG: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson
13. WORDLB_201112_090.JPG: Sequoyah: THe Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
14. WORDLB_201112_093.JPG: A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Illustrated by Heath Robinson
15. WORDLB_201112_099.JPG: Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
16. WORDLB_201112_102.JPG: Crossover by Kwame Alexander
17. WORDLB_201112_105.JPG: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
18. WORDLB_201112_118.JPG: A secret room for poems.
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20. WORDLB_201112_197.JPG: Hidden in some of the shelves are controls for the staff to use. In this case are the paintbrushes used in the Word Worlds exhibit.
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Wikipedia Description: Planet Word
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Planet Word is a language arts museum that opened in Washington, D.C., in October 2020. The museum is described as "The museum where language comes to life" and features exhibits dedicated to topics such as the history of the English Language, how children learn words, and how music and advertising use words. It is located in Franklin Square at the historic Franklin School.

The museum was created by Ann B. Friedman, a philanthropist and former reading teacher who is married to New York Times opinion columnist Tom Friedman. It occupies the historic Franklin School building, designed by Adolf Cluss, and located on Franklin Square at 13th and K Street.

Speaking Willow, an interactive, motion-detecting tree sculpture is an exhibit created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that whispers to visitors in hundreds of different languages as they enter the museum. Other notable exhibits within the museum include First Words, Where Do Words Come From?, and The Spoken Word.

While being constructed in 2019, construction was ordered to stop for illegally removing historic elements. Work resumed two months later after an agreement to reinstall the interiors.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11 and then the BLM protests started followed by the child president trying to steal the election in November. Trump's handling of the pandemic has been a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and increasing the deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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