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"1-2-3, Library!" Edgartown Kids Look to the Future
What will the next Edgartown Public Library look like? Get a sneak preview in our mini-video from Monday afternoon, when library trustees and town selectmen joined with local schoolchildren to celebrate the start of the building project.
Young Edgartown readers and their teachers joined library trustees, school commissioners, town selectmen and the building and design committee for the new public library in a "sign planting party" Monday afternoon in front of Edgartown School.
Also on hand was a model in progress of the future library, shepherded carefully on a large dolly by its two chief builders, 14-year-old Rebecca Lima and 12-year-old Benny Binder.
After the kids and dignitaries posed for photos, the roofless model was wheeled back into the school, where Lima and Binder will apply the finishing touches before it's again brought before the public during the July 4 parade.
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But while the model was removed, the large painted wooden sign depicting the future library to be built at the school remains on display.
According to library trustee chair Deanna Ahearn Laird, the sign was "professionally made and anonomously donated," and is situated on the West Tisbury Road in front of the school so that passing "visitors and voters alike will know the progress we are making."
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The $11 million dollar building project is expected to be completed near the end of the first quarter of 2015, according to the library website.
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