December 9, 2024
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Friendship Free Library Wins Grant to Refresh Children's Collection
Friendship Free Library was one of three Allegany County libraries, alongside Alfred Box of Books Library and Scio Memorial Library, to receive a $5,000 grant from the John Henry Eldred Jr. Foundation. The rural-libraries foundation has distributed more than $1 million since 2012 to honor literacy advocate John Henry Eldred Jr. and his mother, Dorothy Louise Kyler. Friendship's library, housed in the 1912 Pitt Memorial Library building on West Main Street, plans to use the funds to add shelving, create comfortable reading nooks, buy new titles, and reorganize its children's collection by reading level. The goal is to make the space easier for young readers and families to navigate.