A leprechaun is loose in the library! Families of children in 6th grade or under can use provided materials to create a leprechaun trap and hear stories of the luck of the Irish.
A leprechaun has been sighted at the library and we need your help catching him! Leprechauns are tricky creatures, so we'll need to be clever and unique. Legend has it whoever traps a leprechaun will be granted three wishes.
Families of children in 6th grade or under can listen to tales of St. Patrick's Day and the luck of the Irish, and then they will use their creativity to design and build a Leprechaun trap to catch one. Place candy or gold coins in your trap to attract these Irish fairies and capture their gold.
All materials will be provided. Registration is required.
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.
