Most of the world would be surprised to know how few of our thoughts are really original with ourselves. What we write and say is, for the most part, a kind of mosaic interweaving of ideas and recollections gathered together out of other people’s talk or books. The combination and rearrangement of them is about all we can call our own. When a man does really evolve an original thought out of his own mind, it is the exception, rather than the rule. It is usually the fruit, either of patient study, or of fresh and vivid experience.
Brown Bag Talk: The Lady of the Library
Sep 7th 2017 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Sep 7th 2017 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Bring your lunch and dig in while learning some history in the Seward House Museum gardens. William Seward was an outspoken champion of libraries. He even hand-picked the volumes for the first New York State School Library system, created while Seward served as Governor of New York. In Mr. Seward's hometown of Auburn, no library has loomed larger than Seymour.
Join Dori Gottschalk-Fielding, Coordinator for Seymour Library's Mary Van Sickle Wait Local History Discovery Center, to learn more about its founding almost 115 years ago. Dori will highlight the importance of Seymour's first librarian, Mattie Bullard, a strong 19th century career woman and suffragist who left an indelible mark on her community.
This event is free and open to the public.
