One Good Thing

My work town is  home to a Carnegie library, one of the 2,500-plus libraries partially funded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Now, Carnegie may well have been an anti-union robber baron trying to get into heaven, but there’s no denying the impact these buildings had on thousands of communities in the first part of the 20th century.

Some still remain as libraries, some have been lost to demolition, and many have been re-purposed. Gaffney’s is in the midst of becoming a state-of-the-art museum focusing on the Southern campaign of the American Revolution. Carolina Rising is scheduled to open in time for the United States Semiquincentennial (I had to look that one up — it means “250 years”) and should be quite a showpiece.

Libraries. They continue to give to their communities.

You should visit yours this week!