Growing up in Willow Creek

Our library’s professional genealogist is adept at suggesting interesting genealogy research projects.  A couple of years ago he mentioned t...

Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck intertwines the story of the unlikely murderer Hawley Crippen of Coldwater, MI and Guglielmo Marconi’s inventio...

My great-grandmother Jessie Agard began her diaries in 1944. On the left hand pages she wrote about her wedding day. An interesting account ...

Bertha Agard We live in a town where one woman’s generosity continues to make a difference. Mary Hawley used her inheritance - money...

Although I love using the Internet for genealogy research, I absolutely love the experience of researching in a library.  I love walkin...

John Wesley Agard John Wesley Agard , “…like his father, was a scholar and a farmer. Although he was only privileged to complete the eigh...

The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library in Newtown, CT has one of the largest (and best organized) book sales in the Northeast, and I am honor...