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From: Lyn Legere <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] RE: Reunion
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 18:58:27 -0400
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Hi Robert & All,

I have e-mailed the appropriate person with respect to Saturday availability
and what costs that would entail.

To find out more about the Watertown Library and its' resources, see:

watertownlib.org

LL

"Robert L. Ward" wrote:

> All,
>
> This is something I would be very interested in, but I would arrive
> early (perhaps Thursday noon-ish) in order to avail myself of all
> the resources on a weekday (Thursday afternoon and Friday daytime).
> What hours are they open during weekdays?
>
> At 04:39 PM 5/4/02 -0400, Lyn Legere wrote:
> >I spoke with a lovely woman at the Watertown Public Library this
> >morning. She told me of quite a few things they have, including copies
> >of Henry Bond's 1850ish map of Watertown, copies of the Pierce and
> >Melville books, a book call "Crossroads on the Charles" from which she
> >read me some excepts on the Whitneys of Watertown and a new book,
> >"Divided We Stand" - also history of Watertown book. They have numerous
> >series with early photographs of WAtertown, including "The Elms,"
> >apparently quite a mansion in which Minnitte Osgood Whitney & Husband
> >had their 20th wedding anniversary (and she received 300 diamonds as a
> >present!!). She has the address of Lexington Street for John & Elinor
> >which is not where the high school is and I believe Shawn had said that
> >the high school was on their land. I could have gotten this mistaken.
> >
> >Anyway, she offered to have a room for us downstairs with all the
> >Whitney resources brought down, etc., but then remembered that the
> >library has lost its' funding to stay open on weekends during the
> >summer. Therefore, if we want to access this resource, we will have to
> >chalk over some change for the Janitor, etc. I have the number to call
> >to get more information on costs, etc. for this. Is this something we
> >want to pursue? If people are not interested, I don't want to spend a
> >lot of time making phone calls, so let me know if you'd be interested in
> >spending a little money for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> Mr. Robert L. Ward
>
> http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html

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