Word: southporters
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...Southport, Conn...
...Southport, Conn, is a little (pop. 2,500) village only 50 miles from Times Square. The villagers and commuters like its quiet, colonial atmosphere, are glad that their town is not growing by leaps & bounds. One of the things they like best is the small, one-story stone building on a peaceful street called the Pequot Library. There, among thrillers and romances, Southporters could find row after row of ancient, leatherbound volumes mostly describing life in colonial times. The old books had been there for years, and people enjoyed browsing through them, though few of them seemed to give...
Auctions for the Ladies. The Pequot Library Association knew that the old books were the gifts of two wealthy Southport ladies, Mrs. Virginia Monroe and Mrs. Mary Wakeman. Mrs. Monroe, who donated the library, which opened in 1893, made it her hobby to collect interesting old books for its shelves. A third Southport resident in love with Americana was the Rev. William H. Holman, pastor of the town's Congregational Church. Pastor Holman made it his business to read over rare-book bibliographies and go to auctions for the ladies. His own records show that in 25 years...
Werrey picked out a few of the oldest-looking items and locked them in her vault; the rest were left standing on Pequot's shelves for the people of Southport to enjoy. Then, after the war, inflation hit Southport and the library began having money troubles...
Barbara C. Furrer '53 of Southport, Connecticut, and Denise Mangravite '53 of New York City last night won the elections for dorm president of Moors and Barnard Halls respectively...