. History of Conway (Massachusetts) 1767-1917 . rble with a high dado of Brescia Violet marblebetween the columns. There is a reading room, rectangular in shape, about 21 feetby 23 feet on either side of the rotunda. In the rear of therotunda is the stack room, which will accommodate 25,000 or30,000 volumes. With the early summer of 1901, the building was ready forits use. Friday, July 13, was appointed for the opening servicesof dedication. Our native town gives us beautiful days for greatobservances, with air and sunlight befitting to the recalled the enlivening skies and field
. History of Conway (Massachusetts) 1767-1917 . rble with a high dado of Brescia Violet marblebetween the columns. There is a reading room, rectangular in shape, about 21 feetby 23 feet on either side of the rotunda. In the rear of therotunda is the stack room, which will accommodate 25,000 or30,000 volumes. With the early summer of 1901, the building was ready forits use. Friday, July 13, was appointed for the opening servicesof dedication. Our native town gives us beautiful days for greatobservances, with air and sunlight befitting to the recalled the enlivening skies and fields of that day in June,twenty-four years before, when the One Hundredth Anniversaryof the incorporation of the town was commemorated. It isprobable that no other events since the first occupation of theplace have awakened such universal interest, or brought togetherassemblages so large, as these two. But from the early timesthere have been many gatherings in Conway in the groves andopen fields, and our thoughts go back on these occasions to the. 192 HISTORY OF CONWAY. reports of the great patriotic and political celebrations onIndependence Day, especially in the opening years of thenineteenth century; or we have in mind, perhaps, the traditionalmemories of that sterner call which brought every able bodiedman to the Common by the old Meeting House when the cryof Burgoynes coming ran through the land. The record is longand varied, but thus far there has been no observance that islikely to hold about itself associations and remembrances morepleasing and grateful than those which belong with the openingof this Memorial Library. Special invitations had gone to all throughout the place; theoccasion was for all; all, almost, were there. Many sons anddaughters of the town long absent had returned; many strangerswere there but not as strangers; county and town officials werethere, and librarians, in numbers, from towns near and distant;many personal friends of Mr. Field were with him. A
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