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Trip 05
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Images from my road trip to West Virginia and Virginia
Included are picture along the way
to and from
Pembroke Town Library
In 1988 I had lived in the little bend in
the river town of Pembroke. I had taken a picture of the quaint
little library [see inset] located on the Main Street. When I
returned in 2005 I found that the library had been moved and painted
white. I found the following explanation of what happened in the
time between my visits.
The Pembroke Library is about nine feet wide by
thirty feet long. It’s a full lending library, with four thousand
books, two computers, a dozen movies, and, for almost fifteen years,
the same congenial librarian, Claire Robertson. With no telephone
and restricted hours—it’s open only two hours a day, four days a
week—the place is tricky to visit.
For a very long time, the building sat on Main
Street beside the historic Pembroke Hotel. A few years ago, the
telephone co-op bought the land (for $1) for a new parking lot. The
hotel was razed in the name of parking progress, but the bank around
the corner agreed to let the Library sit on its lot. So a moving
crew came over with a flatbed, lifted up the Library, and
unceremoniously plopped it down around the corner. Claire and a
friend personally moved all of the books to their basements before
the transition, storing them until the new shelves were properly
bolted down. (The
Believer)
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