Andrew Carnegie in the news

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who accumulated one of the greatest fortunes the world had ever seen, founded 660 public libraries in Britain, because, as a poor messenger-boy, he had borrowed a book a week from a free library, and the experience led him to value a library beyond all other forms of beneficence. "It is the mind that makes the body rich," he declared.

From an article on the closing of libraries in Great Britain.

Link » "Impoverished Shelf Life" (from The Telegraph)

A very hungry caterpillar

Diana Glosser shares some more photos from the library renovation.

A hole is to dig

(That's the title of a children's book by Ruth Krauss.)

A tree grew in Charleston

A work in progress

The Charleston Carnegie Public Library, as winter turns into spring.

Stay tuned...

... for further developments!