As we've said--as others have said--it's not just about preserving books, even if that's our special interest. It's about freedom. It's about used coats. It's about homemade, well-made, handcrafted things that will be lost.
Have you ever heard of Lori Jean Karluk? She is a professional crocheter and designer. "In 2000, Lori Jean Karluk was among the teddy bear artists asked to create and loan a teddy bear to the Pennsylvania Teddy Bear Project to help celebrate the teddy bear's 100th birthday....As part of the project, Lori Jean Karluk created God's Angel to help decorate the Governor's Residence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As a participant in the Pennsylvania Teddy Bear Project, Lori Jean Karluk was among those invited by former Governor Tom Ridge and former First Lady Michelle Ridge and Governor Mark Schweiker and First Lady Cathy Schweiker to a holiday reception for artists and their guests at the Governor's Residence on December 7, 2001."
But Lori Jean got started in smaller ways. I first read of her in the July/August 1991 issue of Herrschner's Crochet Patterns. This is what the article said:
"Lori Jean Karluk has crocheted and donated 400 bears, dinosaurs and bunnies for the United Friends of the Children, the voluntary support group for the MacLaren Children's Center in Los Angeles [which she had read about but never seen]....[she said] 'I was just amazed when they called to thank me....[and] I just kept making more. They told me these children had never had anything homemade before.'"
And probably won't, now. No?
It does hurt kids.
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