Love BookTok reviews? Bring your favorite book or kindle to recommend to others and add their favorite titles to your TBR (to be read) pile. Craft/reading time too! September topic: Beach reads
Do you like watching BookTok recommendations? Can't stop talking about talking about your favorite book? Bring your book or kindle to the TBR (to be read) Book Club on the first Wednesday of every month from 6 to 7 pm in the Duncan Room. Let us know what BookTok book you loved or DNF'ed and why. Or just join us to make a new TBR list for yourself. Everyone is welcome to participate! BookTok books will be available each month to check out or to place a hold.
After our book reviews, stay for a short bookish craft or read among other BookTokers! September's theme is Beach Reads from this summer.
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.
