........to not give up hope.
Our local Library is endangered. Not by the economy - I founded it three years ago with the help of several good-hearted people, and it has been overwhelmingly supported and financed by folks from coast to coast and top to bottom of the US (and a few overseas
). Not by disinterest - in a town of 325, we have ~130 cardholders with the vast majority of them local (a few outliers who do actually use the facility!). No, it is endangered by an individual who has determined that he did not like the way the town was beginning to revive and wants that uppity "girl" (me) out of office. He has begun a campaign - hopefully a doomed campaign - to close the facility as soon as he is (plans to be) voted in come April - if not before that date.
The librarians, knowing how this has all upset me, posted this on Facebook. Then one called me and told me not to cry.
Just look at all those little hands raised in hope and support! (Mine was put by proxy in the upper left corner.)
