2015 Hazardville Ornament Features Pickens Memorial Library

Enfield, CT - The Hazardville Institute Conservancy Society, Inc. has announced the availability of its latest limited-issue Christmas ornament. The 15th annual ornament features a 1959 depiction of Hazardville children visiting the John L. Pickens Memorial Library on School Street in the Hazardville section of Enfield.

The ornaments are available for sale while supplies last through December 31st at Teaberry Treasures located at 312 Hazard Avenue across from the Institute, and at United Bank at 231 Hazard Avenue; or during an open house at the Hazardville Institute this Saturday, December 12, 2016 from Noon-3:00 PM.

The ornament was commissioned by the Conservancy and produced in the USA by Barlow Designs of East Providence, RI. They are set in brass, finished with a gold-trimmed bow, and neatly packaged in a display box—ready for gift-giving, collecting, or hanging on the tree.

The Pickens Memorial Library opened to much fanfare in February 1958 to hold some 6,500 books for Enfield’s growing community and library services. Many of the titles it housed had originally been part of library operating out of the first floor of the Hazardville Institute. The facility was named in memory and honor of John L. Pickens, the Library Board member who initiated the grant request from the Carnegie Foundation in 1910 for the construction of a grand new Library on Pearl Street in Thompsonville. Enfield’s Pearl Street Library was dedicated in 1914 is one of six Carnegie-endowed libraries still in operation in Connecticut.

Proceeds from the sale of the $20 ornament are utilized directly by the Conservancy for the ongoing rehabilitation of the Hazardville Institute building.

Those wishing to reserve an ornament and have it shipped, or with questions about the restoration effort, should contact Bill Lee, of the Conservancy, at 860-966-2033 or send an email to EnfieldParade@cox.net.