May 2020’s Newsletter

Written by Brenda Williams

FMHM Members are wishing you well during this 2020 pandemic.

While we are absent one from another we are praying that soon our Great God will grant us opportunity to meet and once again share our continued interests in the Falkner Museum Project goals.

Weeks have passed since our last meeting but work and planning continues even during the quarantine. Project members have kept busy behind the scenes during this quiet time and our thanks go to our President Myra McKee and husband Robert McKee who were willing to install the Little Library boxes in the Park area and to Susan Rutherford who furnishes her shop for the project manufacturing and for collecting the books. One of the Little Library boxes is located at the East entrance of the intersection of Highway 15 and CR 200 near the FMHM sign, and the other one is in the Park Grove behind City Hall. We will have a commemorative celebration when the health officials have given us liberty to assemble. Books are now being collected for these boxes and will be stored until we can open them to the public. If you have books to donate feel free to contact any of the members or put notice on the FB Heritage page.  The free books will be accessible through the plexi-glass doors on the fronts of the boxes where the books are displayed. Yes, these are Free and you are asked to take one Free book and leave one, or more, for the next reader. There will be good reading material for both children and grown-ups.

These Little Libraries are located in many nearby towns and communities and when they become officially registered our locations will join the other thousands of Free Little Libraries located throughout the United States and Internationally. We will have an identification number and plaque and a specifically marked location which will be posted on the Free Little Library website and worldwide map.  We are thrilled to be a part of the Free Little Libraries International and be given this opportunity to share it with you. Our grateful appreciation goes to Wayne and Phllys Hill who built and donated them to the FMHM Project and especially for our Town and Community use.

FMHM project events were canceled during the quarantine but as we hopefully look forward to the Fall when regular schedules resume we will again anticipate the Falkner Heritage Museum meetings, events and continued plans for the Park and Museum activities.  Thank you again for your faithful support and financial assistance. FMHM project members look forward to the next time we can again share events and interest toward the reconstruction of our ‘ole town’ of Falkner MS and its Heritage.