Banning books has a disturbing history in our country. Greg Hill is probably best known locally through his weekly columns in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Parents may know of Greg’s work starting the Guys and Gals Read program in the elementary schools, which engages young readers with books that combine vivid images with exciting plots, keeping the flame of literacy alive. But Greg is a principled and politically adroit champion of the public’s right to access information, as he demonstrated when two censorship issues arose when he directed the Fairbanks North Star Borough Libraries.