Just a small detail.
so far, they have avoided asking for a local tax increase to cover the library’s annual operating budget. This is New Hampshire, after all, where taxes are reviled and frugality is prized.
Taxes delivered services.
Instead, the group is scouring New England, even placing advertisements in the alumni magazines of Harvard and other Ivy League universities, looking for someone who will provide at least $1 million for a private endowment. That is enough, they say, to pay a part-time librarian and other basic costs for years to come. But, so far, there have been no takers.
A novel way of doing things. (Pun acknowledged: novel way.)
New Hampshire was also the first state to enact a law allowing local taxes to support public libraries, in 1849.
Cheryl Senter for The New York Times
A refurbished barn is now a library in Gilmanton, N.H., though it still lacks the money to open. Elizabeth Bedard arranged chairs in the reading area.
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