Thomaston Public Library Latest News For January 9th, 2013

Thomaston, Maine - The Thomaston Public Library is once again participating in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr., food drive for local food pantries. You can drop off unopened, non-perishable food items with current use-by dates at the Thomaston Library or the Cushing Library from now until February 28.  The food drive’s sponsors are St. John’s Church, Thomaston Baptist Church, the Monday Morning Meeting, and Thomaston and Cushing public libraries. Let’s keep Dr. King's spirit of service alive by filling our neighborhood food pantries in this time of ever-growing need.

The Thomaston Public Library will feature a special display of the exquisite set of Danbury Mint collectibles donated to the library last fall by Mr. Keith Alley of Rockland. The set includes finely-wrought, painted models of the Statue of Liberty, White House, U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court building, and Lincoln, Jefferson, and U.S. Marine Corps memorials.

This collection is now a permanent library display, but we’d like to express our gratitude to Mr. Alley for his donation and honor Presidents’ Day by highlighting it for six weeks within the main display case inside the library. The models will appear, with descriptive tags, set against the flag Mr. Alley donated along with the collection. The flag is accompanied by a certificate from the Architect of the Capitol verifying that the flag flew over the Capitol. This set of collectibles will be on display from the 21st of January through the month of February.