St. Eubrie: The Library (481 hits)
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Submitted by GodChicken <Monty> (View user info) at 2006-08-16 14:05:01 EDT
Welcome back! Nice to see you again. Grab a lemon drop out of the dish over there, pull up a seat.
Libraries are full of secrets. Especially in small towns, like St. Eubrie. People move away. People die. The memories of things fade in the minds of old-timers. Especially the things they don't want to think about.
There's a locked door in the back of the library here, across from Wilbeck High School. The dulled brass placard on the door says "Historical Society", but there's no society. It's just me, Anna Heathern, the Librarian.
I collect up the town newspaper articles, scan them in, make photos on a CD so people can read it easy. Slowly going through, replacing microfiche with CD. Everything that's every happened in St. Eubrie is right here in this dark little room. On these shelves. In these file cabinets. Not a lot of newsworthy things go on in a little town like this, but the paper reports the small stuff too. I have photos of every homecoming queen all the way back to...well, when there wasn't a paper or a high school.
I get old photos, too. When one of the old-timers, like myself or Jacob Penn, dies, I go to the memorial service. Often the family is willing to part with photos that are so far before their time that it doesn't mean anything to them. I note down everything I can, scrapbook the photos, and where it came from. I like to know who it is that was behind the camera, or at least standing in front of it.
Want to see the grand opening of Penn's Groceteria? Got it right here. Also got the obituaries of the people what died in the fire there back in 1900. I know you heard that story.
Penn don't like to mention it was a whole family. Jakob Wurtzen and his wife, and all 3 of their children. Burnt up. Like that photographer guy. Did you see that? Here, look right here: http://www.ubersite.com/m/91591 Rumor has it he was out to photograph the Mennonite farm before that.
They were the last family to own the Mennonite Farm. Bad luck, living out there on the edge of RedCrown Woods. There's more articles in here about others who owned it during the early 1800's, but its pretty spotty. It sat empty for years at a stretch till some new immigrants would come in. Now the bank can't sell it, the county can't sell it, the city doesn't want it, and the house has been empty since they died.
My old bones won't let me go out walkin around that far, dear. I haven't seen it in years and years. I don't know if it's still standing or not. I imagine the barn has fallen down by now. Wasn't in good condition back then, either. House might still be there, but who knows. Kids say it's haunted. Go out there on dares and spend the night, probably a sex spot. Kids get hurt out there, especially up by the irrigation pond they built back around 1780. Can you imagine that? Old pond, dam, still workin after all these years.
Don't make anything like they used to. Do they?
This photo here is the Wurtzen family, out at the farm. No, this isn't the original house. The original house was burnt down long before that. This house was built on the property sometime in the 1800's.
You come on back by, I'll show you a few things from way back.
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Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-11-01 22:14:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:54:11 EDT (#)
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DIS!
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2006-08-18 13:11:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Well, the trip could have gone better. We sat in Alaska for two weeks, our permits were late. Two days before the scheduled climb our team leader fell ill, so, we never made the climb. It was a boched process from the start. One of those climbs that was never meant to be.
Mt. Rainier summer of 2007
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-08-17 07:32:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
We need an updated map of this town and what a better person to take on that project than the librarian, unless of course we have a town cartographer.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-08-16 16:31:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I rate this. It good. I no laugh.
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-08-16 15:55:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
we'll all be taking books out
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-08-16 15:07:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:07:25 (#)
Ranking: -2
fuck, it seemed longer when I was typing it in the submit window.
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No worries. I'll get ass-raped when I submit the latest one-shot tale I'm working on. I'm on page 8 in Word, so...
At least things will balance out.
Fun seeing some history of the town, too.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:10:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:09:08 (#)
Ranking: -2
This is too short
Plus you're a kid toucher and a registered sex offender. I cannot support you in any way.
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I'm not going to get blamed for the Yankees running train on your greasy greek ass.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:09:23 EDT (#)
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<runs for his life>
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:09:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This is too short
Plus you're a kid toucher and a registered sex offender. I cannot support you in any way.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:08:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bad freakin' ass.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:07:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
fuck, it seemed longer when I was typing it in the submit window.
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:06:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No freakin' comment.