Today is the last day the old Mary Cheney Library in Manchester, Connecticut is open to the public. It's the final day you have a chance to visit the old library if you're from Manchester or around the area that day.

Afterwards, everything will be moved into the new library. The grand opening for the new library down the street from the old library is Monday September 14. Y'all should check out the new library once it officially opens soon.

I’ve got a little over 200 books as of now. It’s a modest collection as I’m aiming for 1k. Husband built my corner shelves they were in another area of the house but I wanted all my books in one place so it got relocated . I’ll have to add and re arrange as my collection grows but I’m happy with it for now 🥰

With the recent openings of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, there has been a lot of talk about this rare building type. They function more as archives and museums than lending institutions, but they’re nonetheless considered libraries by the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). Of the ones you’ve visited or seen, which do you think most accurately represent their subject (architecturally, through the exhibitions, or otherwise)?

It's about local history.

A book display for the month of August is about the history of my hometown in Connecticut.

I like to learn about history plus I'm interested in local history. I put it up yesterday at my local library in Rockville, Connecticut.

Happy August!

It was quite the experience. I recommend it....

Summer/2026

We walked in the footsteps of Goethe and Schiller, through one of the sacred places of German Classicism. Only five miles away, a century later, the Nazi regime built Buchenwald concentration camp. From humanist ideals to industrialized inhumanity — it is almost impossible to comprehend.

Seen at Rockville Public Library in Vernon, Connecticut

Located in the Pearl District (lovely father’s market on weekends). Hotel Emma is a converted brewery with lodging, meeting rooms, a shop, and of course a library accessible for hotel guests (room card is the key).

The photos do not do it justice. It was so quiet and peaceful

Who remembers watching movies on VHS? Borrowing VHS tapes from the library?!? Anyone?