SEAGROVE –The Seagrove Public Library will hold a birthday party from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, September 9, and everyone is invited.
The event will celebrate the library’s 50 years of service to the community with live music, clogging, comments from dignitaries, a bounce house, games and activitie
s for the kids. Harking back to the library’s famed hot dog sale fundraisers, free hot dogs will be available.
s for the kids. Harking back to the library’s famed hot dog sale fundraisers, free hot dogs will be available.
Crystal King Pottery has created a library-branded mug for the occasion in a nod to another library fundraising effort in which a different local pottery created a mug each year for sale.
After hearing citizens express their interest, the Seagrove Town Council chartered the library on December 5, 1972, and appointed a board of trustees. Board members included
Jack Lail, chairman; Jane King, vice-chairman; Mae Auman, secretary; Martha Comer, treasurer; Mary Ann Teague; and DeWitt King. Thomas Marsh, Seagrove’s mayor pro-tem, represented the town council.
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| The Seagrove Grange Hall, first home of the library. |
Some 100 local residents made donations, including books to stock the shelves and funds to run the library until town government could contribute in the next budget year.
Sarah Auman, a former history teacher at Seagrove High School, was hired to be the first librarian.
With more books provided by the Randolph County Public Library, the library opened on March 11, 1973.
Recognizing that the Seagrove library served the whole southern part of the county, Randolph County Board of Commissioners in 2005 funded construction of the current library building, and the Randolph County Public Library took over full operation of the library.
The Seagrove library is located at 530 Old Plank Road. For further information, call the library at 336-873-7521.
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