Handley Regional Library = Braingasm*
I had the pleasure of visiting a town named Winchester in Virginia last month. While there, I stopped by the Handley Regional Library and, with mouth perpetually agape, snapped lots of photos until they closed and asked me to leave the building. The library was first opened in 1913 because Judge John Handley (a self made man who immigrated from Ireland) of Scranton Pennsylvania willed $250,000 (which would be nearly 5.5 million today) to " . . . open a Public Library for the free use of the people of the city of Winchester forever ." Here are some pictures of the library from the outside: Upon entering this timeless temple to knowledge and steamy paranormal romances, you stand in a glorious rotunda. Here is the library's magical golden directory. Look, they had to change some things and you can tell because they put little metal strips over some words! And then I started exploring the different sections of the library... Disembodied hand! Teen Sp...