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NEWSLETTER No.46 June 1991 Dear Friend of the Library, Having missed the May meeting, I have been getting up to date with the Minutes, which are enclosed for your information. The Casino Night application will be held up until we indicate specifically how the $20,000-odd will be spent. It will be interesting to hear at our next meeting what the senior library staff and the Board would like us to provide with this handsome sum. Preparations for the paperback Book Sale on June 22/23 are now virtually completed, so we should now pray for fine weather. I see that a model of the expanded library will be on display at a public meeting in the Library on Saturday, June 22nd. Our Fall Book Sale will again take place at the end of October, and on November 11th this year there will be a sod-turning ceremony to mark the expansion of the Library. (Sandwich makers, please note!) We shall be asked to look after the insertion of book plates in copies of Sally Carswell's book, which are to be donated to campaign donors some time in the Fall. While our membership numbers are down from last year, our bank balance is starting to climb again (close to $4,400.00) and should receive a boost after the sale later this month. What about a QUOTATION? Well - "The best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm that it raises in us" - Goethe. I have to confess to this enthusiasm following my visit to England, as you will discover as you read on. WHEN PAST IS PRESENT or WHAT PRICE HISTORY? In "Sarum", his great novel of England that traces the entire turbulent course of English history from primitive beginnings almost 10,000 years ago right up to the present day, Edward Rutherfurd sets the scene in the real place of Sarum (row called Old Sarum) on the northern outskirts of Salisbury in Wiltshire, where he himself was born and grew up. (I too have a sentimental attachment to Old Sarum because my wife and I got engaged there in Spring, 1944 while I was on a training course at Old Sarum airfield). Salisbury has the world-famous cathedral, with the tallest spire in England, which has stood for nearly seven hundred years. It is one thing to read history, another to feel it all around you; one thing to look at pictures, another to be there and touch it; one thing to be interested and another to be deeply moved.