Neat Sunday. Livermore Heritage Guild had a "love Livermore" (or something) event, centered at what used to be Livermore's Carnegie Library (built 1911, the library until 1966) and is now the Heritage Guild and Art Guild. Included 90 minute walking tours of historic downtown buildings--done by a retired teacher who (a) really knew her stuff...
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(b) had a Teacher's Voice, so the dozen of us on the tour had no problems hearing/understanding, (c) had a beautifully organized set of oversized picture blowups to provide historic views. Learned more than I would have expected. (Livermore's *first* public library dates to 1901, apparently one of the, if not the, oldest in California.)
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I probably wouldn't have paid attention to this except that my wife, the actual librarian, has been cataloging the Heritage Guild's collection and is now printing out and applying call numbers...
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A correction on Livermore's first public library: The library actually began in 1879--which for California, is pretty damn old--but wasn't fully tax supported until 1902, when legislative changes made that feasible.
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