Library Lovers Month, expansion

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Before February is over, let's have a post for Library Lovers Month!

Our town's library is being enlarged, and on December 4 the day came when all the material in the main reading room had to be moved away so the builders could build.
Students and their teacher from the school across the street came in to help.
These two used their legs to maneuver a book shelf.

When I approached on foot and heard the lively music from this speaker, I knew something very unusual was happening in the normally quiet library.

I guess the girls were waiting for instructions from the librarians.

Behind the hedge and the scaffolding you can see the fresh gray concrete of the new addition.

Outside on the trash bin was this nice scale model of the library made by a 3rd-grader.

Kind of painful to see holes in the wall, especially during Library Lovers Month.

Meitar's library was built in 2003.
The community, founded in 1984, is expanding and it is time for a bigger library.
The construction work has been going on for many months, and we will be glad when the library reopens, bigger and better.
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Ted and the secret agent

Back In The Lou

We've been home for a week, actually, but I had a lot of Costa Rica material to use and the week at work was horrid. No new local material so I had to get myself back on the street. Not an idea in my head, I drove to Forest Park and decided to walk around the Grand Lagoon and Art Hill. There were things to see.

When I'm out with the big DSLR and white lens, sometimes people call out to me, "hey, mister, take my picture!" Always happy to oblige. These young people were beautiful.                    

La chapelle de Richard Mique

So... two days ago, VDP showed you a key. It was the key to this place. The chapel of Hoche school. The building, which was designed by Richard Mique and completed in 1772, was once a nunnery and school for young ladies, founded by Queen Marie Leszczyńska, Louis XV's consort, though she died before its completion. It became a school after the French Revolution and was named after Versaillais General Hoche. During WWI, the school was a military hospital. Read more about it here.

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Donc... il y a deux jours, VDP vous montrait une clef. C'était le sésame pour entrer dans la chapelle ci-dessus, qui se trouve au lycée Hoche. Antérieurement un couvent et maison d'éducation pour les jeunes filles, fondé par la reine Marie Leszczyńska, achevé en 1772 sur les plans de Richard Mique, il est ensuite devenu école après la Révolution et nommé d'après le général Hoche, versaillais de naissance. Pendant la première guerre mondiale, le lycée devint en partie hôpital militaire. Pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus, c'est par ici 

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