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The Trust in Florence
From MMT's 1997-98 Annual Report
The disarming friendliness of a small town was evident from my first stop in Florence at the Siuslaw Public Library to see the "Tot Spot," funded by a Trust grant in 1996. Karen Preuss insisted on meeting me there to show me around, even though she had resigned two weeks earlier as the library's first children's librarian in order to move back to her family's home in Maine, and was up to her elbows in packing.
"This library has tremendous support from the community," Preuss explained as she escorted me past the stacks of bookshelves. "It's one of the three main reasons people decide to retire here..."
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