The Reader Travels

One of my assignments in general reference class in librarian school was to pick a subject I wanted to learn something about and use a wide range of reference materials to find information about it. I had a number of topics I was interested in researching, including the Incan Empire, the Roman Empire, the Lewis and Clark expeditions and the history of Liberia.

However was I going to choose?

Well, it just so happened I watched a lot of Northern Exposure in those days, and I had recently seen an episode where Marilyn was breeding ostriches. Opportunist that he was, Maurice noticed how huge their eggs were and wanted to get in on the action, so he went into business with her. When the ostriches started laying really small eggs, Maurice was upset. He started ranting and raving about these creatures and how he couldn’t count on them and how he ought to just “send them all back to Africa.”

So, I took it as a sign that on the day I received the assignment, I found myself riding in the elevator on campus at Texas Woman’s University with Barry Corbin, who played Maurice.

Liberia could be the only destination.

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