Friends of the Library
Officers:
President: Peggy McCleary
Vice-President: Connie Fleagle
Secretary: Rita Brizzee
Treasurer: Debi Duffey
Membership Chair: Karen Manderson
Why be a FRIEND:
When you become a FRIEND, you become part of an organization that helps to ensure continued quality service at the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library...together FRIENDS provide the much needed "extras" to enhance the library and serve the community.
As a FRIEND of the Library, you are entitled to invitations to special events, including author book signings, annual meetings and book sale previews.
You will also receive the quarterly newsletter, FRIENDS FOCUS, which will keep you updated on new programs at the library and upcoming events being sponsored by the library.
What do FRIENDS do?
- Support the library
- Encourage reading
- Shut-in book delivery
- Used book sales
- Books for Babies Program
- Books for children
- Funding material and equipment
- Funding for programs
- Providing publicity
- Volunteering for programs and projects
- Provide snacks for children's events
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Blue Ridge Summit Free Library
P.O. Box 34
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214
Phone: 717-794-2240
Fax: 717-794-5929
Email:
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Blue Ridge Summit Free Library
HOURS
Monday 3:00 pm - 8:00pm
Tuesday 3:00 pm - 8:00pm
Wednesday 3:00 pm - 8:00pm
Thursday 3:00 pm - 8:00pm
Friday CLOSED
Saturday 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sunday CLOSED
The library is closed for the following holidays in 2011: New Year's Day (Saturday, January 1); Monday, January 3; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 17); President's Day (Monday, February 21); Good Friday (Friday, April 22); Memorial Day (Monday, May 30); Independence Day (Monday, July 4); Labor Day (Monday, September 5); Thanksgiving Eve Close at 5:00 p.m. (Weds. November 23); Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 24); Recognize Christmas Eve (Friday, December 23); Christmas Eve (Saturday, December 24); Recognize Christmas Holiday (Monday, December 26); Recognize New Years Eve Close at 1:00 (Friday, December 30); New Year's Eve (Saturday, December 31). |
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY
HOURS
Monday 2 pm - 7 pm
Tuesday 9 am - 5 pm
Wednesday 9 am - 7 pm
Thursday 9 am - 5 pm
Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday 9 am - 1 pm
Sunday CLOSED
The library is closed for the following holidays in 2012: New Year's Day (Monday, January 2); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 16); President's Day (Monday, February 20); Good Friday (Friday, April 6); Memorial Day (Monday, May 28); Independence Day (Wednesday, July 4); Labor Day (Monday, September 3); Thanksgiving Eve Close at 5:00 p.m. (Weds. November 21); Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 22); Christmas Eve (Monday, December 24); Christmas (Tuesday, December 26); New Years Eve Close at 1:00 (Monday, December 31). |
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Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library
45 East Main St.
Waynesboro, PA 17268
717-762-3335
717-762-5226 (Fax)
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History of the Library
It is said that when Alexander Hamilton arrived in Waynesboro, he came with nothing but a few belongings in a handkerchief and he walked here from Chester County where he had been a wagon-maker and blacksmith until his home burned in 1817.
One of the first things that young Hamilton did was to build a brick house and shop on Mechanic Street (now Church Street). His work went so well that Hamilton married his neighbor's daughter, Jane Besore, and proceeded to invest in real estate.
Hamilton's mother, Martha Wilson Hamilton, is credited with carrying mail in an egg basket for Washington's Army at Valley Forge. On a visit to Waynesboro, Mrs. Hamilton died at the age of 93 and is buried on Burns Hill.
The Hamiltons bought this colonial home in 1841. The house was built by a Mr. Bittinger in 1814 and the interior woodwork was supposedly done by Eli Horner. The house, before it was remodeled for a library, had 16 rooms. The porch, which is of Greek revival design, was added after the Hamiltons bought the home.
The Hamiltons had a total of 12 children, of whom nine survived. Of interest is the fact that their son John who was a farmer also painted portraits. The ones he did of his parents still hang in the library. The Hamilton's eighth child, Jemima married George Stover in 1857 and had three children; William, Jane and Mary. Jane married I.E. Yost and she is the person who willed the house to the town to be used as a library. |
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