Sawyer Free 2025

Sawyer Free 2025 Sawyer Free 2025. A vision that fosters the values of place, belonging, and connection in the Gloucester community.

Shout out to the generous sponsors of the Women's Luncheon: Tracy Davis, Frederica Doeringer, Molly Hardy, Carol Morse, ...
06/07/2023

Shout out to the generous sponsors of the Women's Luncheon: Tracy Davis, Frederica Doeringer, Molly Hardy, Carol Morse, Carolyn Plourde, Andree Robert, Ellen Sibley, and Cindy Thorburn. Thank you for helping to make this such a wonderfully successful event!

In a dazzling kickoff to the summer social calendar leading into this holiday weekend, the Sawyer Library Foundation hos...
05/25/2023

In a dazzling kickoff to the summer social calendar leading into this holiday weekend, the Sawyer Library Foundation hosted a sellout Women's Luncheon on Wednesday to benefit the sawyerfree2025.org campaign to renovate and expand Sawyer Free Library.

Eighty women packed the house at Oak to Ember. Many a "library story" was told about the role public libraries played in these women's personal and professional growth. D.C.-based author, journalist, essayist and critic Liza Featherstone delivered the keynote remarks. Gloucester attorney and attendee Meredith Fine characterized the Sawyer Free 2025 Capital Campaign as "the most important" fundraising effort currently on Cape Ann.

PHOTO: (l to r) Host committee members Stephanie Cuff, Frederica Doeringer, Kate Stavis, Sarah Oaks and Sally Bradley-Golding.

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Inside Prague's first public library (est. circa 1777), a portrait of Francis the Count Kinsky, who impressed upon empre...
05/19/2023

Inside Prague's first public library (est. circa 1777), a portrait of Francis the Count Kinsky, who impressed upon empress Mary Theresa the need for such an institution, is still prominently displayed. Such is the reverence modernity holds for public libraries and their primary role throughout the Age of Reason.

But while public libraries' past is compelling, their future is vital. We live in a new age of reason. A digital panoptic. We live in Enlightenment 2.0. An age when free and unfettered access to knowledge and reason—an age when even machines are learning at a geometric rate—is crucial to a just, free and peaceful tomorrow.

The Sawyer Free 2025 capital campaign is 55 percent of the way to fulfilling the promise of building a new library. Visit sawyerfree2025.org to learn more. And please donate today!

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[Photo: Chad Konecky]

Feeling restless, looking for inspiration and adventure? Why not take a trip to one of the many museums in and around Bo...
05/12/2023

Feeling restless, looking for inspiration and adventure? Why not take a trip to one of the many museums in and around Boston with free or discounted admission passes from the Sawyer Free Library? Bring the kids to learn and play at the Science Museum, the Children’s Museum, the Zoo or the Aquarium. Keep it local and see what’s happening at the Cape Ann Museum, the Sargent House or Maritime Gloucester. And if you’re ready for a full dive into art & culture, head out to the Peabody Essex Museum, the Gardner or the MFA and make a day of it. Rain or shine – a trip to any of these fine museums is always a treat!

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The Sawyer Free library on Dale Ave served about 275,000 in-person and website visitors annually, making it the city’s s...
05/05/2023

The Sawyer Free library on Dale Ave served about 275,000 in-person and website visitors annually, making it the city’s single widest-reaching institution. It was designed to serve about a third that number of users.

The building opened the same year the Apple computer company was formed, Fidel Castro became president of Cuba and NASA unveiled its first space shuttle. Gas was 60 cents a gallon, a movie ticket cost $2, a first class postage stamp set you back 13 cents and a year's tuition at Harvard was $3,740.00.

The building was never meant to serve as long as it did. And it showed. The campaign to renovate and expand Sawyer Free Library is vital to Cape Ann's future in a rapidly changing world.

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It’s well established that introducing children to books at an early age sparks the imagination and opens up worlds of p...
05/03/2023

It’s well established that introducing children to books at an early age sparks the imagination and opens up worlds of possibility and creativity. Kids who develop an appreciation for books when they are very young continue to value reading and learning as they grow. You’re never too young — or too old — to love your library!

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04/26/2023

Public libraries create lifelong learners, enduring personal relationships and communities of care. Gloucester is home to one of the Commonwealth's oldest public libraries. And its free.

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Yard signs are available for pickup at the Sawyer Free Library, 21 Main Street. Please email info@sawyerlibraryfoundatio...
04/22/2023

Yard signs are available for pickup at the Sawyer Free Library, 21 Main Street. Please email [email protected] if you would like one of the brand new yard signs created to promote the Sawyer Free 2025 campaign.

Show your Support! Let your neighbors see your "post"!
We appreciate your online posts, here is an opportunity to post IRL. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like one of the brand new yard signs created to promote the Sawyer Free 2025 campaign. Thank you!
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“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” ― Ray BradburyOver 5,000 years ago, in southern Mesopot...
04/18/2023

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” ― Ray Bradbury

Over 5,000 years ago, in southern Mesopotamia, the earliest libraries began to appear for the purpose of organizing and storing documents. Written in cuneiform on clay tablets, these documents recorded the inventories and transactions of the day, and are the beginning of our written history. While the form and function of libraries has been evolving since that time, it is important to recognize the essential role that libraries play in preserving our past and in creating our future.

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account concerning the distribution of barley and emmer; ca. 3100–2900 BCE; Mesopotamia.

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As you’d expect, the temporary location at 21 Main Street is fully accessible with a sloped ramp from the street to the ...
04/15/2023

As you’d expect, the temporary location at 21 Main Street is fully accessible with a sloped ramp from the street to the front door and a full-sized elevator to the second floor. But If getting to the library isn’t an option, you can have the library come to you! Use the library’s Home Delivery service to have books, movies, magazines, music and more delivered to your door. Find out more at https://www.sawyerfreelibrary.org/discover/services-for-you/home-delivery/.

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04/07/2023

"A place to go where nothing is required of them ..."

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Check out a sneak preview: Two of the latest architectural renderings for Sawyer Free 2025. With your help, we can make ...
04/02/2023

Check out a sneak preview: Two of the latest architectural renderings for Sawyer Free 2025. With your help, we can make these depictions a reality!

Cape Ann's generosity has advanced this philanthropic capital campaign more than halfway to its fundraising need with over $16 million in grants and donations. Every dime gifted gets us closer, and no amount is too small.

Visit www.sawyerfree2025.org to learn more and to give the gift of community transformation.

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