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
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 [...]
Democracy
Is Abraham Lincoln’s government “of the people, by the people and for the people “ still alive and strong or will it “perish from the Earth.” What is democracy anyway? Democracy is [...]
Newspapers Past
How do you read your Mirror Reporter? Do you read from the front page to the back page? Or are you like me and you immediately open to the "Remember When" column? [...]