In the fair city of Waukesha, WI they're not burning books. Through the Waukesha Library they're making an effort to get people to read them. It's an honorable goal.
For the month of October, they're honoring Ray Bradbury and the book Fahrenheit 451. On October 13 they're bringing in Sam Weller, Bradbury's official biographer to speak, on October 16, Elena de Costa on government repression around the world and then some guy named David Zach who calls himself a futurist is going to be speaking on October 29th. It seems that this Zach guy owes a lot to Bradbury. He was his favorite author when growing up in a small southern Wisconsin town.
Bradbury wrote about the future from the perspective of innocence, youth, small towns, trust, simplicity, and a simple trust in humanity and a simple trust in the future. We could do worse.
