This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eisenhower, Farwell Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1664 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. April 25, 1901. "The Family Library".--The library is now within the reach of all classes. Competition between the publishers and the multiplicity of authors has forever banished the day when a small volume was a luxury, and the book stalls have placed treasures of literature where the poor may reach them. The poor in purse may become the rich in spirit. Books are so cheap that they often materialize in the hands of those who love them; and sometimes the possessor hardly knows how or whence they came. So the library has not only become a feature of the home, but a necessity. The collection of books is bound to be made. It comes without effort. There is always room for one more book, and the first thing you know there is caseful, and by and by the case runs over and another case materializes from somewhere. Maybe the family carpenter nails it together, and some one else gives it a coat of paint; later on the books crowd that case; finally there is a roomful, and lo! you have a library. You make room for the books you love.--Haryot Holt Cahoon, in May "Woman's Home Companion". N.B.: Soon after the Eisenhower presidential library in Kansas opened, the first thing a visitor noticed in the home of Ike's parents, was the home library...My grandfather Farwell built his home in Walnut township in 1917; the book cases separated the dining and living rooms!--W.F.