Mom was every bit as headstrong and self-willed as Pippi, and she urged me to read it. Salaries were low after the War, so good libraries were a MUST.Īfter the supermarkets, banks and liquor stores, new libraries ranked high in those burgeoning burbs - along with new churches (we still believed back then!) - on the priority list of must-have new buildings.Īnd the summer before the library opened, Mom was a one-woman army of industry, cataloguing new books on our kitchen table. As the birth rate increased, so did the need for entertainment to keep the kids happy, and few of us had a TV in the mid fifties. Kids were everywhere, even though our typical town's size at first was small. One of my Mom's favourite strategies (probably at the direction of her Library Board, though at that time it was her own pet project too) was to provide our town with a plethora of kid's books. Back in 1957, my Mom's village library opened to a steady stream of visitors.
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