Library

     Our Library has many old books, records, sheet music, 
magazines, newsapapers, pictures, slides, negatives,
etc, from the late 1800's to the present.
     We also have many video tapes on the history and
development of our area, along with many audio cassett
taped interviews of prominent citizens from our local
history.
     With the help of the "Cut Bank Woman's Club" we have
recently acquired a new Microfilm Reader to work with 
our growing collection of films with census records and
more old newspapers from our area.

Strangers in the Box

Come look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I’ve often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.

I wish I knew the people
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like.
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I’ll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate
Of pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be tossed away?

Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.

By Pam Harazim
East Hampton, Conn.