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August 28, 2006
Size DOESN'T matter
Sometimes the best ideas come from the smallest libraries. In 1956, Barbara and Raymond Holden founded an extraordinary literary award for their hometown library, the Richards Free Library in Newport, N.H. The genius of this idea was getting Robert Frost to accept the first award and to come to Newport to give an acceptance lecture. Thereafter, many, many distiguished literary figures have accepted the Sarah Josepha Hale Award, and come to Newport N.H. to give their lectures. Who wouldn't want to accept an award first received by Robert Frost? I have attended the Hale Award lectures for years, and have often thought about trying to establish a similiar award in Darien. If we do, who should be OUR first recipient?
Posted by louise at August 28, 2006 06:15 PM
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