History is fascinating.
The Library History Room is full of so many interesting stories that should be shared.
Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and some will make you wonder why.
Enjoy traveling back in time with our historian!
Children’s Library – 1986
Clear Lake Carnegie Library
Twixmas
Twixmas- the unofficial term for the relaxed period between Christmas and New Year. Time to shift from high gear to glorious neutral. The possibilities are endless and Clear Lake holds them all. [...]
Christmas by the Lake
What an incredible Christmas by the Lake weekend we just had! Hats off to all the people who make it happen. Clear Lake has always loved Christmas. The Clear Lake Observer reported [...]
Give the Gift of the Library
The first public library in this country was established in Franklin Massachusetts in 1790. Benjamin Franklin donated 116 books with the intention that townsfolk could borrow them for free. What a gift! [...]
Geneology
Who are your people? Where do you come from? Genealogists tell us that if we only go back 12 generations, it took 4,096 great greats for you to be here. Even if [...]