Book Club at a Glance:
Our next meeting will be Friday, May 31, 2013
at 7:30 pm. We will be discussing The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers.
Call the library at 860-482-8806 for more information.
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Don’t forget that when event pictures leave the home page of the website, usually they go to the Events page.
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The Great Courses
Bakerville Library is pleased to announce a gift of over 40 DVDs by The Great Courses.
"Designed to meet the powerful demand for lifelong learning, The Great Courses is an intellectually engaging series of video and audio courses led by the world's best professors and experts in diverse fields such as philosophy, history, literature, science, and the arts."
Our Library's list of Great Courses DVDs includes titles in history, literature, music and science. Please stop in and borrow the titles you find interesting.
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Online Updates!
1. Our blog, Bakerville Reads, has received an infusion of new life, thanks to Elaine Carmelich. Please add it to your favorites, check it out regularly, and post a comment every now and then.
2. We have had to re-create our Facebook page, so that anyone can see it, even without a Facebook account. Whether you’ve Liked us before or not, please click on the link below and Like us.
We hope these improvements will help you keep in touch with what’s happening at the Bakerville Library.
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Bakerville Library is now a
state-recognized historic building.
Making History
On May 5, 2010, the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism’s Historic Preservation Council voted to list the Bakerville Library on the State Register of Historic Places. Elaine Carmelich was instrumental in helping this to happen, researching documents in the library and conferring with Neal Yates, whose book Where Walk the Souls of Heroes, a history of Bakerville and his house here, includes the history of the library.
This means that not only does the state now recognize what we’ve known all along, but also that we are now eligible to apply for state historic preservation grants previously unavailable to us. The library board is interested in applying for grants to help stabilize the building’s foundation.
As you may have read in Kari Banach’s Waterbury Republican-American article (May 19, 2010; a copy is kept in the library if you missed it), “Buildings on the state register are examples of specific architectural periods, longtime local landmarks, or are sites of significant historical events, state records show.”
The Bakerville Library, established in 1949, was built as a Baptist church in 1824, and then known as the Academy and Bakerville School from 1832 to 1941. From 1941 to 1949 it was the Bakerville Community Association. It was in 1949, as we all know, that Barbara Yedlin famously started the library with her son’s storied little red wagon.
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Speaking of History...
The Bakerville Library is part of the Bakerville Methodist Church’s history. Click here for the Register Citizen article.
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