A book club featuring a variety of genres. Join us for a riveting, in-depth discussion about books you choose. Monthly newsletters with questions about the book and author interviews included.
Fourth Monday of every month in the Auditorium. Read a different book every month. Featuring a variety of genres. Join us for a riveting, in-depth discussion about the book you read. Newsletters with questions about the book and author interviews included.
July 22
“The Goldfinch”
by Donna Tartt
August 26
“The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King: A Nonfiction Thriller”
by James Patterson and Martin Dugard
September 23
“Plain Truth: A Novel”
by Jodi Picoult
October 28
“Me Talk Pretty One Day”
by David Sedaris
November 25
“The Greatest Generation”
by Tom Brokaw
In 1897, local public servant and storekeeper George Harsh willed $10,000 for “public library purposes.” The funds purchased nearly 10,000 volumes for Massillon’s first public library. Also in 1897, J.W. McClymonds announced his gift of an endowment of $20,000 for a library. The Russell sisters, Flora and Annie, who married the McClymonds brothers, donated the Nahum S. Russell home, located on Prospect Street (now Fourth Street NE), in memory of their parents. The McClymonds Public Library opened on January 1, 1899, and was funded by private subscriptions and an annual disbursement of city funds. In 1922, the McClymonds Public Library became the Massillon City School District Library and was now funded by tax revenue.
In 1930, Annie Steese Baldwin willed her home “as the site for a new public library.” Built around 1835, the brick home overlooking downtown Massillon from Hill Street (now Second Street NE) was first the residence of the city’s founder, James Duncan.
The current Massillon Public Library (Main Location), located at the corner of Lincoln Way East and Second Street NE, opened in 1937. Designed by Albrecht & Wilhelm and funded in part by a Works Progress Administration grant, the Duncan/Baldwin home was connected by a Jeffersonian portico and rotunda to a west wing Reading Room and Children’s Room. The Massillon Museum was also housed at this location until 1996 when it moved to its present location at 121 Lincoln Way East.
