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Learning from the best

By Craig Scott, Director of Gadsden Public Library Over my years as Director of the Gadsden Public Library, I’ve learned something that has become increasingly important to me: some of the best ideas for improving our library don’t necessarily begin in Gadsden. Sometimes they come from having a conversation with another library director, visiting an […]

Blast from the past – news nuggets

By Danny Crownover [The Vagabond] About 180 years ago, parts of three farms were surveyed and laid off into 260 lots as a site for the new town of Gadsden. Ever since then, there has been speculation as to which way it would grow. The natural tendency for all large cities in the world is […]

What makes “art” anyway?

By Tabitha Bozeman This week, I watched a show about the art students who pulled off a major news hoax in 1998: the “Leeds 13.” Their idea was pretty simple: to highlight the unreliable nature of the British tabloids at the time, they would pretend to misuse grant monies awarded for an art project and […]