The Fowlerville District Library has a dedicated room, toward the back of the building, that contains a large collection of papers, photographs, artifacts, and some interesting memorabilia. The door to the room is locked when not in use. Two of the biggest rules of the room is that an appointment needs to be made to reserve the room and also that the room is monitored when in use.
It is a sad fact that when the collection was not under "lock and key" at the old building some irreplaceable items went missing. Someone felt they deserved it more than the library did.
As I have spent numerous hours cataloguing and organizing what is available for research, I have offered my volunteer time to be at the room on Wednesdays, from 10 am to noon. For April, those dates are the 5th and the 12th. I won't be available the last two Wednesdays of April but will start up again in May. At this point, I am planning on all five Wednesdays in May.
The picture above shows part of the south wall of the room. Nellie Lansing Glenn was a wonderful keeper of the history until her death in 1970. She was also an artist and painted representations of some of the original buildings in the village from 1847 on. They are a treasure and we're happy to have them for display purposes.
I hope you will come to check out what the collection has to offer as well as looking at displays by the fireplace and in the alcove at the back of the building. In lieu of a museum, the library is being very generous to offer space for this collection.
1 comment:
Thank you, Marion for all the time and effort you do for this project.
Ron Daly
Post a Comment