The Ames Free Library, Natural Resources Trust, and Easton Historical Society are at various stages of re-envisioning their role in our ever evolving town. The NRT will be starting its visioning process next weekend after three years of expert studies on conservation, forestry, and agriculture. With two new teachers coming on board, new programs for people of all ages will also be discussed.
The library, already an award winner as the second best small library in America, is also looking ahead with a committee made up of library patrons from high school students to retirees. There's lots to love about the library these days from the awesome staff to the active programming to the whole campus idea. The group found the library's slogan "Where the Community Connects" to be one of the rare occasions where the motto matches the action, and suggested ways the library could continue to grow as the town's cultural center. A final meeting of this committee will take place later this month.
The Easton Historical Society has been closed for a few months due to extensive restorations. Things have moved slowly at the Society for quite awhile; part of the restoration repaired damage done by the blizzard of 1978! The little room in the south corner of the building is being turned into a reference library. Yesterday Jim Inman of Inman Galleries at Whistlestop Plaza was in hanging maps in the reference library including an 1825 map that has never been available to researchers before. The South Room, formerly the exhibit area has been turned into a classroom, study and meeting area. A big screen TV and wireless access will soon be available in that room along with a whole range of computer databases in a new computer in the ticket office. The Historical Society will begin offering minicourses in local history, genealogy, and old house research to name a few in the Fall. The South Room will also feature a small gallery of local artists. The North Room has become the new exhibition area. It will be freshened with new paint and a new rug shortly.
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