I spent a lot of my childhood at the old Longfellow Library going through all the books. A through M in the adult section as a kid! I probably went there three times a week and it was just fun to go. It was beautiful, it was the prettiest building, with a lot of sun coming in. I think maybe I skipped the kid's section. I don't know exactly when it became a library, I probably started going there by myself in about 1953 or something like that. I just spent wonderful hours sitting there in the sun reading, clutching the books, and taking them home. It was something you could do, which you can't do so much now, just by yourself as a kid just going back and forth. And also we didn't have a television until 1955 so it was my entertainment--I just loved it. The whole area over there was wonderful and we could walk or take our bikes and feel very safe and walk down to the creek and walk down to the river. It was just a really nice, safe, pretty area to be. For years after it was a library, it was a warming house, just an old building that was in disrepair, and they had a fund for it and then just recently renovated it, opened it up again, moved it a block away, and it's now kind of a historical sight.