August 11, 2007
 
after incorporation
More snippets. Letter from Rose Wilder Lane, early 1958:

...I am hoping that the Committee can make an arrangement to combine the library now in town with the Memorial. I thought that perhaps the Librarian, with a friend if she liked, would live there, and that the books could be combined. There is as much room in the downstairs befroom and the office, for books, as there is in that little rented room in town, and my mother's books could go back on the shelves where she kept them; and when I lived there I had another book case built against that half-wall in the livingroom, just inside the diningroom door on the right as you go into the livingroom. There are two bedrooms upstairs, and the attic could be a nice little private sittingroom. The place could be offered rent free, for the place in town, and save the librarian whatever she pays for rent; her salary could go on as it is now. She would keep the place open only the same hours that she keeps the library open now, and the rest of the time she would have the use of the whole house- the kitchen, b ath, and livingroom in the evenings. If this could be done, it would solve the problem of a caretaker and keeping the house open during the summers, for tourists happening by. Those who have library cards would be admitted free; others would be charged admission.... I see no reason why the library should stay where it is. In these days of cars the little run out to the house doesn't matter to anybody, and actually by measurement the house is no farther from the schoolhouse than the library is now...
- posted by pioneergirl at 2:59 AM


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