Happy 125th, Ghost and All Willard Library Celebrating Founderos Progressive Ideas

Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) › May 13, 2010

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If Evansville philanthropist Willard Carpenter had had his way - and even more money - there'd be a Carpenter College atop Reitz Hill.

Instead, friends and associates persuaded the 19th century entrepreneur to endow a Victorian library, erected for $65,000 and dedicated on a stormy March 28, 1885, at what is now First Avenue and the Lloyd Expressway.

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Happy 125th, Ghost and All Willard Library Celebrating Founderos Progressive Ideas

Willard will celebrate its 125th anniversary Sunday with a public "indoor garden party" from 1 to 5 p.m., including games, historical displays, a scavenger hunt, birth...

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