It’s a new month, and the Bandera Library is here for it.
Mark your calendars for Thursday, March 4, at 10:00 a.m. for the Monthly Book Club meeting via Zoom. The group is discussing “The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary” by Simon Winchester.
In 1857, the behemoth undertaking of creating a comprehensive English dictionary began. The overseeing committee led by Professor James Murray discovered that more than ten thousand definitions had been submitted by a single man: Dr. W. C. Minor.
In their effort to honor Dr. Minor’s enormous contribution, the ...