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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: September 22, 2021
Oral Historian: Linda Collins
Interviewer: Anna Lee
Topic: Falmouth Public Library
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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yeah so the um the library obviously the
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Main Library is a real anchor of Main
#falmouthpubliclibrary
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through 0288 &
Hunt_Village_Bldg_009 through
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Street and the branches have been around
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long enough to be these recognizable
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community centers but it wasn't always
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that way so can you give me a walk
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through of the history of how that came
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to be
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happy to
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there was a librarian in 1958
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whose quote I use often she said library
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Falmouth is a library-minded town and it
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was true in 1958 it's true today
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and it was certainly true um when the
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library was being
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um
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put together in the 1800s
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there was a subscription-based library
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and goes back to the 1700s
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but the main move to get a free public
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library was in the
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1800s the
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Falmouth Free Public Library was
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established at town meeting in
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1891 um with an appropriation of 50
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dollars a year
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but the the real momentum behind it was
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Esther
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Elizabeth Beebe who died in
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1889 and left us three thousand dollars
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which was a substantial amount of money
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at that time
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to establish a library
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the um
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cost of the library was 35 000
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and there was an interesting letter to
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the editor
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by somebody who signed it um “Heavy
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Taxpayer” and he charged the the
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library trustees with building a Taj
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Mahal
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because they were concerned about it
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being a fireproof building so the
#1891
#estherbeebe #beebe
#1889
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construction was
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iron and concrete
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and they had Vermont green slate for a
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roof which we still enjoy today
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and the base is local granite
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so the the
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the library was well built and the main
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part of the library we still enjoy
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the 1901 library was designed for
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Falmouth of 1901 which had
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about 900 homes
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and the collection was about 5 000 books
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so it quickly
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it quickly got to be
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a bit small
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in the 1920s they considered building a
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mezzanine to hold more more books and if
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you go into the old part of the building
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look up and see you would have to be
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pretty short uh to make use of a
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mezzanine in that area so although the
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plans were drawn I’m I’m pretty
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grateful that that
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that they didn't follow through with
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that plan
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the main
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addition to the library the first
#1901
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addition to the library happened in 1967
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when they built wings on either side of
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the initial building and that added
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another seven thousand square feet to
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the building
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in 1978
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uh a
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addition was added to the right which is
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the current Adult Collections room and
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that
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uh added another 15 000 square feet
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and then the most recent addition in 2007
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added the wing on the left side which is
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the Reference room and the meeting rooms
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to bring it to the current um 40 000
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square feet so when is the next addition
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not going to happen we are
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a steady state library for um
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zero-based growth for every book that
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comes in um
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we we get rid of one and
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that's not a bad thing uh it's a good
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thing to um
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to be good stewards of the collection
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and keep the collection fresh and
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current
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um
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#1967
#2007
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that's the history of the main library I
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should jump backwards and talk a little
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bit about the branches because the
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branches are interesting the North
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Falmouth Branch
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is actually older than the main library
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that was established
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in
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1879 it was a room in the North Falmouth
#northfalmouthlibrary
#1879
#northfalmouthcongregationalchurch
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Congregational Church
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and
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in 1955 and looking for more room they
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moved across the street to the old fire
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station it's the little white building
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that currently is used by the North
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Falmouth Village
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Association and
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they were there for
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10 years and then they moved to their
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current location in Nye Park
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and that's an interesting story the
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building they're in
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was an old barracks building that came
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from the from um
#1955
#northfalmouthvillageassociation
#nyepark
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from the base and it was moved across
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land
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it took five days to get it to Nye Park
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uh it they had some heavy rains it got
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stuck in the mud
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an axle broke
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they had to take a day off because it
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was Sunday and they needed a day of rest
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so
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after five days of of dragging this poor
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building across they set it up on blocks
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in the parking lot and there it sat
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waiting for um town meeting to vote for
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the money to um establish it as a
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community center not a library in Nye
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Park and
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one of the stipulations was that there
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would always be room in the in the
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basement for storage of Park Department
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uh tools
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and I haven't been in the basement in a
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long time but the last time I was there
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there was still tools belonging to the
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Parks Department in the basement
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so finally it was it was turned over to
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the library um
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I think it was in
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1960 a pardon me for having my
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notes but when I get nervous I would
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need notes to tell you what my name is
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in 1964
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the building was transferred to the
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Trustees of the public library and it
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became
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a public library and at that same
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location still is
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today the East Falmouth Library is not
#eastfalmouthlibrary
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as old it was established in 1935 in a
#1935
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classroom in the
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East Falmouth Elementary School
#eastfalmouthelementaryschool
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and in 1943
#1943
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they needed that space
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for kindergarten and so the library was
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closed and it remained closed until
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1958 when the school was able to give
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them space again
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but it was clear that the East Falmouth
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Library needed more room and so in
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1971
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the um town purchased the Vidal House
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across from or by Mill Pond next to
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Smitty's and
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that's where the library is today well
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that's really fascinating the the note
#1964
#1958
#1971
#millpond
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especially about North Falmouth Library
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that is not the origin I would have
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expected for that building
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and um what you said about
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building uh the idea of building a Taj
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Mahal is very interesting because
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libraries obviously become very heavily
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identified with the buildings they
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inhabit but at the same time they're an
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institution that's beyond a building
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that has to
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think about how to serve the public
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so if
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you could tell me a little bit about the
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library's intentions in the community
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especially things that you think other
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people may not necessarily be aware of
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if they’re just casual patrons
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well it's it's interesting
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the services library services are
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changing
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and um
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again the need for space
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is
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the need for a library is is always
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going to be there
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it's just that the use of the existing
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space will change
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or be reconfigured to meet the changing
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needs of the community and as as we're
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all aware
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a lot of the collections are becoming
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digitized our current collection of DVDs
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will slowly uh be phased out as as
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we receive more of our um DVD watching
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via video streaming we're buying a lot
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of ebooks people are reading books
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electronically the e-audiobooks it's a
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big space grab in the library but new
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cars are not even being equipped with CD
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players so people are getting their
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audio books through streaming and and
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downloading them to their phones
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I don't want to scare people we will
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always have books we will always meet
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the needs of the community and it's
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interesting because we're a tourist
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community and sometimes
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our summer homes are not kept up
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technology wise as
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as as much as our main home so it's
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important that we
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we have it we still have a collection of
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VHS tapes
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they have got to be phased out there are
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just a few people who are still using
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VHS but
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we'll hang in there as long as as there
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is a need for it
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the note about the rental homes is very
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interesting because I can imagine people
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um
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there's a divide definitely between
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people who interact with the libraries
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locals and people who come back every
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year as vacationers
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and I would imagine they come back
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expecting what they have seen for the
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past five ten years maybe even their
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whole childhoods
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do you think that there's a difference
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in the way the library serves
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vacationers as opposed to locals in
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terms of programming materials anything
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like that well we certainly direct our
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programming um which is
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financed by
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well the programs are financed by the
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Friends of the Library and the Trustees
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but we certainly
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our main constituents are our tax-paying
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residents of Falmouth but we we have a
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real commitment to the tourists and we
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do
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allow borrowing and welcome them to the
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library so
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so
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and and go out of our way to provide the
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services that they need I was
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talking with Jill Erickson and she was
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telling she was showing me a letter from
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some visitors from England who had
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uh marveled over the the quilt that
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hangs in the Reference Room and the
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reference librarians gave them all kinds
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of information about the quilt and even
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found a poster an old poster of the
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quilt which they took home and framed
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and sent a photo back to us of of our
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Falmouth quilts hanging on the wall in
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their home in England so um
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we always we meet the needs of the of
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the public and
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many times go above and beyond those
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needs
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the um speaking of the quilt that's very
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interesting because
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perhaps for some people it might fade
#jillerickson
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into the background but the library
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isn't just a home for
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the materials that you would expect
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there's also there's art there's other
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things that are
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in the collections that help to
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preserve a picture of Falmouth as a
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community not just
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not just those informational materials
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it's it's interesting because um
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I found a quote from one of the original
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Trustees of the library Reverend Henry
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Smythe and he I’m going to have to read
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this because I don't want to mix it up
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he um said that the library should
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gather and store materials related to
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the history of the town and he talked
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about old letters logbooks stories and
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traditions
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and he said specifically things that
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have never been written down but which
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are most important material for
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understanding the town's life this is by
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far the most valuable work a library can
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do for a town
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so yes our mission is beyond
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current reading of fiction and that it
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is to preserve the history of the town
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and this project they will that we're
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working on Postcards from Falmouth
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certainly meets um the desires of the
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initial trustee who who would
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greatly approve of what we're doing I’m
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sure I would think so even though in the
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way that um the idea of what the library
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should be has changed there are some
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things that um
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that definitely haven't they still hold
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strong
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and
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in terms of that obviously we've gone
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through a period of a lot of upheaval in
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the last couple of years or so so if you
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could tell me a little bit about the
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adaptations the library has had to make
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to
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things that might have otherwise been
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considered iron-clad in order to deal
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with the pandemic
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oh during the pandemic
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that that was a very interesting time
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for us we had to rethink how we provided
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library services
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without people coming in the building
#postcardsfromfalmouth
#pandemic
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we did a lot of home delivery we did
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outside delivery of materials
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people asked for they missed the
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browsing so we loaded up book trucks and
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brought books outside for people to
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browse we
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listened to the community to see what
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they needed and what we could do to meet
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those needs
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one thing people missed was the
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computers
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and and
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internet connectivity so we bought hotspots
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that people could borrow we bought
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Chromebooks that they could take home
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um
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we had to
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be on our feet thinking fast and and
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staying in touch with other CLAMS
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libraries across the Cape
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to get good ideas libraries are great
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about sharing
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and meeting the needs of everyone in
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that way
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we were lucky that
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that we had already started down the
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digitization path so we had a lot of
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ebooks available for people
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research that people would normally do
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at the library is a lot more online and
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I’m not talking about
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Google
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we had a wonderful digitization project
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in 2012 using CPC funds
#cpc (Community Preservation
Committee)
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and we digitized the Falmouth Enterprise
#falmouthenterprise
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from January
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of 1896 through
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December of 1962 we
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had to stop in 62 because there was a
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requirement that um only historic
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records could be
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digitized so it had to be from 2012 when
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we did the project back 50 years
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we're looking we're working with the
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Boston Public Library to complete that
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digitization project
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and the the Falmouth Enterprise is such
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a wealth of information about the town
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this is one of the the best things we
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did it really is it's um
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there's so much research so much you can
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learn about that one thing I learned in
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looking at the Falmouth Enterprise was
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that there was a a crime that took place
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#bostonpubliclibrary
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in the library in December of 1943
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the librarians came in to find that the
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library had been broken into
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and a set of historic stamps had been
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stolen
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and he'd come in through the basement
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window and taken the displays off the
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wall
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and one of the librarians had remembered
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a gentleman in army fatigue studying the
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stamps the week before
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and so she was able to give a
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description of him to the police
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and the police went to the base and
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talked to the librarian there and she
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said oh yes
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a
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gentleman had borrowed
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the six books they had on the value of
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stamps
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prior to our break-in so they
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they went and uh
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arrested him
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and he had
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packaged the stamps up in a box and
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buried them in his mother's garden in
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Framingham
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and they were retrieved
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unharmed but the beautiful frames they
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were in um
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apparently he thought this would
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identify the stamps with Falmouth so he
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stopped on the Bourne Bridge and threw
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them in the Canal
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so those were not recovered but it's
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stories like these that um that you
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wouldn't know from uh
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it would be too hard to go back through
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microfilm and and learn about it I’ve
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looked uh
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that's not the end of the stamp story
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I’m trying to figure out what happened
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to the stamps and I’ve talked to the
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Historical Society and
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talked to people in the library but that
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timeframe 1943 is just far enough back
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that there isn't
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uh memory of the event so I’m I haven't
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given up though I’m still going to keep
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looking to try and find the end of that
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story
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that is a really interesting little saga
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maybe a sign or a I hate to say a
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symptom but when you
#falmouthhistoricalsociety
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have a an institution that's really
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supposed to be a clearinghouse and a
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place for as many people from the public
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to come and be served and to gather
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strange things happen yes for sure
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and um
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thinking of the the steps that the
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library has taken to adapt to the
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pandemic
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do you
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see any of those things carrying forward
17:38
has the patron response been to to hang
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on to these things or they want to go
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back to the way things were
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absolutely library services are forever
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morphing um we would never step
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backwards and um library home delivery
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is really uh important we have a a
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homebound librarian who
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people can register with and she will
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deliver books to them and
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she develops a real personal
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relationship with the people that she
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serves and she knows what books they
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like she makes recommendations and
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that's something that's certainly
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ongoing it happened before the pandemic
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18:16
but during the pandemic we expanded it a
18:19
bit I would
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on several occasions I would stop at
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people's homes with the instruction to
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put the books underneath the back cover
18:28
of the pickup truck in the driveway or
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or put the the bag of books in the
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mailbox after the mail delivery that
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came at four o'clock so it was kind of
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uh kind of fun making sure that people
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still had the reading material that they
18:42
desired
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uh at that time of course we've always
18:46
done a phone-in reference service um ask
18:49
a librarian so a lot of the services
18:52
were there we just needed to ramp them
18:54
up a little bit
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I would imagine that that kind of thing
18:59
really puts you up close and personal
19:00
with the the texture of people's lives
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because people bring strange questions
19:04
to the library
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they do
19:07
they do
19:09
that that would be a better question for
19:11
a reference librarian I know Jill has
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her favorite questions
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19:15
and um
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they're not interesting stories are not
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coming to my mind right now
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I would like to talk about the um the
19:25
Postcards though the
19:27
Postcards from Falmouth is a
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a grant funded project
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and
19:34
why postcards and Falmouth and this is
19:37
an interesting story
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some years ago
19:42
my husband and I were having
19:44
dinner at the Quarterdeck and a woman
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that we knew
19:49
from the Falmouth Road Race and the
19:51
Falmouth Mile enough to say hello to
19:52
Doris Beatty was seated next to us so we
19:55
said hello she was
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dining with a a friend
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and the next night
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we were at the Flying Bridge for dinner
#quarterdeck
#falmouthroadrace
#flyingbridge
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while we were having dinner two nights
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in a row I don't know that's enough
20:06
that's a whole other story but seated
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next to us was Doris Beatty and her friend
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and so we teased them that they
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20:14
were following us and we got talking
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with them and um her friend Mr. Hunt
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Robert Hunt
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told me that he had been stationed here
20:23
during the war and had started a
20:25
collection of postcards about Falmouth
20:28
and would we be interested in having
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them and I said absolutely so he came
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with 600 postcards and we scanned them
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and put them up on our our website and
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they were we're really lucky in Falmouth
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because um as a tourist town there are a
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lot of postcards about Falmouth if
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you're not a tourist community you might
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have a handful of postcards but Falmouth
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has lots as we found out
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Mr. Gunning came in the library after
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seeing the
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Hunt collection and said that his mother
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Anita Gunning had collected postcards
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for years and would we be interested in
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hers he brought in 1800 postcards
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from about Falmouth so with volunteers
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and staff we scanned the front and back
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of those
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postcards and then most recently a
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gentleman in Falmouth Gareth Jennings
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brought in his collection and so we
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scanned them so we have
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well over 3000 postcards of Falmouth
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scanned and you you might think there'd
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be a lot of duplication yes there is
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some
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but um there are different time frames
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the different collections of different
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time frames so we're constantly finding
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new postcards
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and postcards you know what what do we
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do with them well it's been really
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interesting we had a creative writing
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program where people chose a postcard
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and wrote a story about it
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um
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this project Postcards from Falmouth to
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to look at postcard locations across the
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town and
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film people's memory of that location
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I had an interesting question from a
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patron he was looking through our
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postcards and came across one
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where someone had written on the front
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of the card “why so quiet,” signed Marie
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and this this was the first batch that
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we had scanned and we hadn't done the
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front and back just the front and he
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wondered if there was any more to this
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question on the back of the card
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so I looked and on the back of the card
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was just the address and the postcard
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had been sent to
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a Julia Quiring in Boston so I looked
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her up to see what I could find out and
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she was a most interesting woman
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fascinating she was a Boston Brahmin a
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hat designer
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her brother was an artist who did
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frescoes in the theaters in in Boston
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and she lived to be 108 which so
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impressed me
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I did find two other postcards addressed
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not to her but to her sister Anna so
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every time we get a new collection I go
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through to see if there are any more
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postcards written to this family but I
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think
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I think that's probably all we've heard
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from the Quirings
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I think that's a really a great example
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of the idea of what we're trying to do
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with the project being to use these
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ephemera to capture moments
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in history and in people's memories
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because that's where the really
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interesting particulars are and it's
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also a great visual history of the town
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I was so impressed with the postcards of
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the train stations in North Falmouth
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when when the main uh
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means of transport to Falmouth was
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trains and there it was a huge huge uh
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depot in North Falmouth you wouldn't
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think there'd be room for it but I think
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it was mostly in the area where the
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parking is for the uh for the ferries
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now but quite fascinating
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and nowadays it's kind of an element of
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the landscape that's either been
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effaced totally or really pushed into the
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background yeah so having that record is
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it's valuable but also like you said it
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really provokes people's curiosity and
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leads them down interesting paths yeah
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and to that point as we wrap up is there
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anything that you want to
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say to people about the library
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yes I always am happy to talk about the
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library
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the library appropriation is only 1.5
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percent of the town budget and it is um
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a real deal for the for the residents of
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Falmouth the um
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there is so much to offer at the main
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library the East Branch the North Branch
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but also the West Falmouth Library and
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the Woods Hole Library all open to the
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public all offering different programs
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and services there’s truly
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something for everyone at the Falmouth
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Public Library
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and our our our two private libraries
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that are still open to the public
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well that's wonderful thank you for
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coming thank you for having me
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Transcript of Linda Collins' Oral History on Falmouth Public Library
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Anita Gunning
Anna Lee
Beebe
Boston Public Library
COVID-19
CPC
East Falmouth Elementary School
East Falmouth Library
Esther Beebe
Falmouth Enterprise
Falmouth Historical Society
Falmouth Public Library
Falmouth Road Race
Flying Bridge
Gareth Jennings
Henry Herbert Smythe
Jill Erickson
julia quiring
Linda Collins
mill pond
north falmouth congregational church
North Falmouth Library
north falmouth village association
nye park
oral history
pandemic
Postcards from Falmouth
quarterdeck
robert c. hunt jr.
transcript