Phil works at a community college and several staff and teachers are interested to hear about our plans. He learns a little more about the Carnegie Libraries from the history teacher. He’s surprised to hear that the Parsons Carnegie is the first one to be built in Kansas. He gets suggestions of good places to eat while we travel to the different towns. It looks like if we head straight west on U.S. Highway 166 we can take in several of the buildings in short order. Our goal is to start off with a bang and go to quite a few all at once. It will be harder to do this later on when we will have to travel farther. We’ll take a picture of the two of us on the steps of each building, go inside if possible and also visit the public library of the town if it isn’t housed in the Carnegie.