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For those of you who've been following this journal, or my life, for a bunch of years, you've probably heard me kvetch about the postage stamp of a library we have in my town, and my short-sighted townspeople who have turned down substantial state grant money to help us build a new one, with such classic arguments as "but we could just use the money that we would have to put into a library to buy everybody in town a computer!"
A couple years ago, when I was serving on the latest feeble attempt at a library building committee (and I could tell you stories...), the owner of the largest business in town declared that he would donate the entire cost of a new library - and senior center and meeting hall.
Today (10/31/09) was the grand opening/dedication, and it is a stunning and spectacular facility.
80 years and two weeks ago saw the official opening and dedication of the Hart Free Library, the predecessor of the new building. The townspeople did not pay for that one, either - it, too, was donated.
Somebody congratulated me on the completion of this long-held goal, and I observed that while I was thrilled to see it, I really did not see myself has having had a hand in it - that congratulations to me were not called for beyond those due any member of a town that had gotten "something for nothing," so far as we could tell.
Still, and again, it is a truly wonderful building.
Now, if only the townspeople do a better job of maintaining this one than we did with the last.
A couple years ago, when I was serving on the latest feeble attempt at a library building committee (and I could tell you stories...), the owner of the largest business in town declared that he would donate the entire cost of a new library - and senior center and meeting hall.
Today (10/31/09) was the grand opening/dedication, and it is a stunning and spectacular facility.
80 years and two weeks ago saw the official opening and dedication of the Hart Free Library, the predecessor of the new building. The townspeople did not pay for that one, either - it, too, was donated.
Somebody congratulated me on the completion of this long-held goal, and I observed that while I was thrilled to see it, I really did not see myself has having had a hand in it - that congratulations to me were not called for beyond those due any member of a town that had gotten "something for nothing," so far as we could tell.
Still, and again, it is a truly wonderful building.
Now, if only the townspeople do a better job of maintaining this one than we did with the last.
