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Library Celebrating 75th with Party This Sunday

By EMILY HILBERT
COOPERSTOWN

Tell the book lovers to grab their party hats, because the Village Library of Cooperstown is celebrating its 75th birthday this Sunday. Located at 22 Main Street, the building was completed in 1898 as a gift for Robert Sterling Clark, son of Elizabeth Scriven Clark. In 1932, Robert Sterling Clark donated the building to the Village of Cooperstown, after which the Women’s Club of Cooperstown took care of it from 1939 until the library gained a charter from New York State in 1949.

With the library being such a prominent fixture in the village all this time, it made sense to wonder how it has contributed to the community over the years.

Library Director Heather Urtz Amendolare explained.

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