Please Send Your Pictures

Inside the Fort Scott Library was a framed example of some of the old picture post cards. I wonder if anyone reading this has old pictures or postcards of Carnegie buildings? If you do and would like to share them, please scan them and attach them to an e-mail to me:
somanybookssolittletime@hotmail.com

On to Fort Scott

On to Fort Scott by way of some coffee at the local BP Station. We're taking highway 39 east. I take a nice long nap while Phil drives and wake up just in time to come down the long hill into Fort Scott. Every fast food place in town has a yellow school bus or two parked next to it and high school students crossing the highway, milling around, talking in groups. A sign tells us that there is an agricultural contest at the community college. The Carnegie is in the older part of town. We find the building, built in 1902 at 201 National.

This is the largest Carnegie building we have seen so far. All original building with no additions like Chanute or Wellington. The children's room is still in the basement. Little is changed. There are suspended ceilings which were added at some point, but that is about all of the updating this building has seen. Fort Scott is a town that respects and treasures its older buildings, so I sure that at some point it will get a facelift.

Chanute Carnegie Library Building

The Carnegie building in Chanute has been renovated and is now a judicial center. We are able to go inside and wander around without too much trouble. There are offices and courtrooms along a hall.

Back to Questing

Did you think I had just left you in the middle of Chanute, KS standing out in front of the Chanute Public Library? Did you think that I had forgotten all about questing and blogging about it? Well, I didn't. For the past several weeks I've been working really hard to get ready for the summer reading programs at our library. You see, I'm the one at our library who gets all the summer events put on a calendar and sends it to the printer. I then design flyers and sign up sheets for all those events and make multiple copies to advertise them to the public. Getting an ad ready and putting it in the paper, running copies of the calendar around town, putting the calendar up on the library website, reading logs ready...all the stuff that goes into getting ready for summer at a library. For the last week or so, the main thing has been to get the library decorated and looking good. As you can see from the photos that are on our library blog, it's looking good. We're ready for a great summer. Anyway, as of today I'm back to blogging!

Chanute Public Library

More pictures of Chanute Public Library.

A Safari

After stopping to download the pictures we took yesterday, we're ready to go on to Chanute, our first library of the day. We spot the Carnegie building on the way into town, but go on a few blocks to the Chanute Public Library. The building is an old railroad depot and houses both the library and the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. The Johnsons were explorers and filmmakers in the 1920's and 30's. Martin was raised in Chanute and Osa was from nearby Independence. I've had older people in Parsons tell me about Martin and Osa visiting their classrooms to show movies of Africa and the south seas.