October 18, 2007 – 11:52 am
Photo by Dennis Quinn
It was just about a year ago that the library, with the help of the community, assembled a collection of titles on Sustainability. Now, a year later, with the Community School’s CSA garden, the Stonehedge Farm vegetable stand, Peg’s wonderful wood-fired bread, and the first summer season of the Tamworth farmer’s market making locally-grown food available to one and all, sustainability in Tamworth is more than an idea and a theory. Sustainable Tamworth has legs! And a Yahoo group, and recognition and some funding from the Rey Center. Congratulations for a year well-spent.
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On a recent trip to England, Brad Ball had the chance to visit the city of Tamworth in Staffordshire and stopped at their library to deliver some books donated to them by Cook Memorial Library.
He met with Ian Burley, the team leader in the Reference and Local History department and presented to him copies of “If Walls Could
Speak, Revisited,” “Tamworth Recollections” and the “Cook’s Tour of Tamworth Kitchens.” Mr. Burley was pleased to receive these contributions to his library and posed for a picture right where they will be available to the patrons.
In return he gave Brad two books about the history of Tamworth, Staffordshire which will be added to the
collections of the Cook Library.
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Now that groundbreaking has taken place, work proceeds on the Veterans Memorial here in the village. The Memorial will be dedicated
on August 12th, with a parade, music, speakers, presentations, etc. Don’t forget that the library’s Friends group has reprinted “Tamworth in World War II” and copies are available at the library for $5.00 each.
Here’s another quote from the book:
Planting the Memorial Tree
Armistice Day, 1944 was a beautifully clear day. The flag on the school grounds stood at half mast as the many friends of Kenneth Brett gathered to pay their respects to an old friend. The service was simple and short but none the less sincere for its simplicity. In the few words that were spoken that day the people standing there were reminded that freedom of education was one of things for which Ken Brett had fought. It was fitting that a blue spruce be planted on the school grounds where he had spent so many childhood hours. The reading of the “The Soldier,” a poem by Rupert Brooke, brought the service to a close. As the flag was raised to its full height and slowly lowered, Edwin Blackey, Jr. placed the soil around the tree which will stand as a living tribute to one of Tamworth’s sons. Wilbur C. Goodson
And stand it still does, tall and stately, within sight of the Veteran’s Memorial which will serve to honor all of Tamworth’s sons and daughters who have served their country.
Willey (Barbara) Fromm at tea
Yesterday at the library’s afternoon tea, Willey Fromm was honored by her community. A prolific portraitist and landscape artist, Fromm painted local subjects for over fifty years, celebrating life in Tamworth and sharing her consummate skill with the community. Nearly every household proudly displays at least one of her pieces. It was both a privilege and a pleasure to honor a community member who has brought so much joy to others through her artwork. Please come to the library to see her work which is on exhibit downstairs in the meeting room. There is also a scrapbook which chronicles the evolution of her life as an artist and a display of memorabilia in the meeting room’s display case. Click here for several other posts about Fromm.
Willey Fromm, contemplating her beloved brushes
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From 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15th, the library will host an afternoon tea and talk on Willey Fromm’s life as an artist. Slides of her work will be shown and refreshments will be served. All are welcome. At left is a sample of her beautiful work in oils
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Tamworth is a town to be proud of. Yesterday, March 24th, 2006, was Town Meeting Day, and as the only non-resident in the room, I felt privileged to be among you, and even more, to be allowed to speak on behalf of the library. I hope that some of you took a look at the display the Veteran’s Committee presented in the hall outside the gym.
To both honor and add to the work the Veteran’s Committee is doing, Friends of Cook Memorial Library have funded a reprint of “Tamworth in World War II“, which was originally published by the Tamworth Women’s Club in 1948. The reprints are available at the library for $5 each.
It is a book to make Tamworth proud. First there are all the youthful faces, both men and women, of so many residents of Tamworth, some of whom are still amongst us, and the descriptions of their war service. In addition there are many interesting and inspiring essays written about Tamworth’s many contributions to the war effort. Below is an excerpt.
Every resident of Tamworth may be justly proud of the record made by this community in the various War Bond Drives. The words “every resident” are intended to mean exactly that, from the schoolchildren who purchased an amount in excess of $3000 to the service men and women who regularly made bond purchases, and even the elderly lady who on the first call for subscriptions pledged ten cents per month until she had accumulated enough to buy an $18.75 bond.
It is safe to say that there is no single community in the country with a war bond record equal to the Tamworth record. There were eight individual drives. In three of these drives Tamworth was the first town in the state to reach its quota, and in one of these drives Tamworth was the first town in the entire country to reach its goal….(By the end of the war) Tamworth (with a population of 700 adults) had purchased a total of $313,305, nearly twice the combined quotas.
There are also essays on the Tamworth Red Cross, blackouts, Chinook Kennels, and planting the Memorial Tree.
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January 1, 2007 – 7:37 pm
Louise Wrobleski generously donated seven photographs of her women relatives reading books. From these seven and this one of my grandfather being read to by his mother, we have created a set of 8 cards. This set, each card with a different photo, will be sold for $10, for the benefit of the Ulitz Genealogy & History Center. All proceeds will be used to purchase supplies for preservation.
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December 15, 2006 – 6:36 pm
In 2005, Barbara “Willey” Fromm, a renowned local Tamworth artist, gave fourteen pieces of art from her collection to the library. These woodcuts, oils and watercolors are proudly displayed on the walls of the library, upstairs and down, on a semi-permanent basis. Come in anytime the library is open to see this wonderful collection.
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