Friday, February 05, 2010

THE WAGNALLS MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN THE VILLAGE OF LITHOPOLIS (Love Your Library)

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A SCENIC SUNDAY post WAGNALLS MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN THE VILLAGE OF LITHOPOLIS,OHIO

scenicsundaylogo Some Tudor-Gothic style architecture for this Scenic Sunday.

Near Lancaster, Ohio is the village of Lithopolis (Litho) & (Polis) or village of stone so says their web site.

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SO A LITTLE “STONE” MUSIC

 

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“It's only a ROOM with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks.”

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“It's a jet on which I soar
to lands that exist no more
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“Or a key with which I find
answers to questions crowding my mind.”

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“Building my habit of learning and growing,
asking and researching till I reach knowing.”

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“Here, I've been a mermaid and an elf
I've even learned to be more myself.”

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“I think that I shall never see
a place that's been more useful to me.
With encouraging kind friends with wit
Who tell me to dream big and never quit.
It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks.”

POEM
MY LIBRARY
by Varda One

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Behind Wagnalls Memorial Library is the ravine. This is where Lithopolis Freestone is quarried.

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A subject for another post. Does anyone want to visit an antique store?

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For Village of Lithopolis history CLICK. Visit your LIBRARY, Or visit a BOOKSTORE.LIBRARYLOVER In February, we celebrate libraries--with Library LOVERS' Month.

BOOKS1 CLICK and put a little comedy into your life.

JOE TODD Til next time have a great day

13 comments:

Snowbrush said...

Did you ever think, Joe, that you could build a career designing websites for tourist places?

Betsy Banks Adams said...

There's nothing better in winter than to snuggle up with a good BOOK... Libraries are great, Joe... That one --and the area around ---look fabulous...Love those blue skies also!!!

We have a little more snow here this morning--just a dusting but pretty.
Betsy

Small City Scenes said...

What a great library. Love it!! I could spent days in among the books. That stone is incredible. thanks for the tour. MB

Now for some comedy. MB

Small City Scenes said...

George Carlin---a favorite of mine. MB

eileeninmd said...

Great tour of the library and photos, Joe!

Unknown said...

HI Joe
I*t's a nice building and it looks like the grounds around it is lovely too.

Hope you are having a nice weekend, Ev

Gemma Wiseman said...

A fascinating place to escape into reading lesiure time! It is like a mini mansion! Glorious!

wenn said...

lovely scenery n nice poem!

Hilda said...

I love to read, so you can imagine how I feel about libraries. This may not be big as you said, but it's absolutely gorgeous!

Have a peaceful and blessed Sunday.

Anonymous said...

It looks like the kind of library where I could spend hours upon hours of time. :)

Kim, USA said...

I thought the picture is from other European country. It's very beautiful thanks for sharing!

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Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Joe -- I've never read a bad post on your blog, but this is my favorite EVER! We love libraries. The poem was great. Your pictures are beautiful. And this village goes on our to-be-visited list. Fantastic post. Thanks so much for sharing.

TONY LETTS said...

libraries are awesome places