The Library Remember When...

From the Ipswich Tribune May 29, 1930 edition

LIBRARY IS BIG ASSET TO TOWN

The Ipswich Public Library is a great asset to the town and to the people in this vicinity and it can be made still more of a benefit without any expense to the taxpayers, if more take out books.

Thomas Edison wrote as follows:

“It was the books I borrowed from the Detroit Public Library, in the days when Detroit Public Library in the day when I was a train boy and too poor to buy then, that gave the scientific information I needed for my early experiments. I cannot be too grateful for the library privileges accorded me...