Love of Libraries Started in Allenstown, N.H.

I first entered a library when I was 6 or 7, a short myopic Yankee kid hungry for books. The Allenstown (N.H.) Public Library, then and now, is housed in a modest, one-story brick building with a fireplace at each end and large windows on either side of the front porch. In the summer, day lilies fill its front yard, blooming riotously as flowers do in cold climes. The library could easily pass for someone’s home, except for the identifying sign in front. The library was built in 1934 during the New Deal by the Public Works Administration at a cost of $13,000, in the Colonial Revival style....

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