{"id":3378,"date":"2018-12-07T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:58:28","slug":"starr-lackawannas-namesake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2018\/12\/07\/starr-lackawannas-namesake\/","title":{"rendered":"Starr Lackawanna&#8217;s namesake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anyprices.com\/starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-316764\/price-comparison.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3379 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-225-button-by-cafepress.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-225-button-by-cafepress\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-225-button-by-cafepress.jpg 480w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-225-button-by-cafepress-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/starr-lackawanna-button-librarian-225-button-by-cafepress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/governance\/starr_latronica\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3380\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"slatronica\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/slatronica-624x469.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh mah gahd, Starr Lackawanna, the librarian who appears in Daniel Pinkwater&#8217;s novels <em>The Artsy-Smartsy Club<\/em> and <em>Looking for Bobowicz<\/em>, is based on a real person, <a href=\"http:\/\/brattleborowords.org\/staff\/starr-latronica\/\">Starr LaTronica<\/a>, currently of Brattleboro, Vermont! Which, come to think of it, totally sounds like a place in a Pinkwater book, alongside Hoboken and Hogboro.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/caws-elwitt\/\">Jonathan Caws-Elwitt<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Oh mah gahd, Starr Lackawanna, the librarian who appears in Daniel Pinkwater&#8217;s novels The Artsy-Smartsy Club and Looking for Bobowicz, is based on a real person, Starr LaTronica, currently of Brattleboro, Vermont! Which, come to think of it, totally sounds like a place in a Pinkwater book, alongside Hoboken and Hogboro. Thanks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}