Meet local authors!
Join us in the Main library Auditorium as local authors answer questions and sign books. Browse each author’s table where various books will be available for purchase. Free refreshments!
This year’s fair will feature the following authors:
Don Ake
Clifford G. Annis Jr.
Dan Arman
Mary R. Arman
Rex Beach
Dawn Dagger
Daniel Dydek
Deborah Edmisten
Joe Clifford Faust
Amanda Flower
Roger Gordon
David Grunwell
Chrissy Hartmann
Rich Hites
Irv Korman
Havelah McLat
A.M. McPherson
Geraldine A. Radcliffe
Cat Russell
Jane Ann Turzillo
Vance Voyles
For more information, contact Laura Klein at 330-832-9831, x319.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | Children | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Creative Writing | Book Sale | Author Visit |
TAGS: | writers | writer | local author | books | author |
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.