To the editor: Much more than Gustavo Arellano’s glorious column on library censorship, the headline, “Huntington Seashore desires to maintain ‘obscene’ books away from youngsters. Good luck,” took me again to my early Sixties highschool days.
In our Shakespeare textbook, “Romeo and Juliet” was sprinkled with asterisks indicating the place a few of the Bard’s phrases and phrases had been deleted to guard our adolescent sensibilities.
An enterprising pupil handed every of us a sheet of paper as we entered the classroom sooner or later. He had gone to the city library, researched all of the naughty bits, typed them up after which made mimeograph copies to distribute.
Everyone was delighted, none extra so than our instructor, who proceeded to conduct a really entertaining tutorial and dialogue on Elizabethan language and literature.
Preston Neal Jones, Hollywood
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To the editor: I need to thank the Huntington Seashore Metropolis Council, significantly the 4 conservative members, for offering a wonderful instructing second for my youngsters, each of whom are of voting age.
They’ve realized that every one politics are native and that engagement is a should. What they noticed on the assembly the place the council determined to restrict entry to sure library books was huge governmental overreach, prejudice and ignorance.
These pointless and ridiculous tradition wars together with the Supreme Courtroom’s Dobbs choice on abortion will hopefully make the GOP irrelevant in 2024.
Lisa Shook, Huntington Seashore
