NAME | Beginning Year as Director |
Mary L. Davis | 1920 |
Ruth Fedd | 1932 |
Persis Petry Stealy | 1943 |
Betty Einspahr | -- |
Margaret Quivey | 1953 |
Janet Granger | 1970 |
Eleanor Wittenberg | 1979 |
Virginia Maravilla | 1985 |
J. Michael Furl | 1997 |
Francine Shreffler | 1999 |
Barbara Zink Berkey | 2005 |
Sandy Morgan | 2007 |
Planning for a new library on a wooded site on E. Commercial Ave., the library asked State Forester Harold Brunner to inspect the stock of grown trees on the property. Brunner marked about 50 of the 300 trees that should be harvested for their wood, taking into consideration their age, location and condition.
A Valparaiso lumber company, A.W. White, was the successful bidder for the trees, but they didn't bring any fancy new equipment to the site.
Instead, the loggers used chain saws to fell the trees, some more than two feet in diameter, and invited 'Dick' and 'Red' to help them stack the tree trunks for removal from the grounds.
'Dick' and 'Red' are a pair of Belgian draft horses that were raised as work horses. Last week, Neil Hyndman spent several days on the Lowell site with his wagon and the team of horses, moving the felled trees into a stack.
"We are harvesting some red oak, white oak. . . to be sawed into grade lumber for furniture and wood pallets," explaining Hyndman.
He said the horses took to the hob easily, even though it was 'Red's' first job. "They were born for this kind of work," noted Hyndman as he guided them through the woods. "It works out just fine."
Construction on the new library is scheduled to begin June 1.
See also Lowell Carnegie Library
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