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Nancy Young[_2_] Nancy Young[_2_] is offline
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Default On-Topic (Cookbooks, Kitchenware)-slightly morbid

Jean B. wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:


>> Locally there was a woman with a very large collection of cookbooks.
>> She left them to the library until she found out that they intended
>> to sell them off at book sales. I don't remember the details, but
>> she wound up leaving them to a library that agreed to build an
>> addition
>> for her books and keep them as a collection.
>> She must have had a gazillion books and a pile of money.


> Gee, I'd love to know more about that. It sounds like she was
> quite a collector!


After I posted, I looked it up online. She donated some 2000
books. Looking at the website, I think they built a whole library
while they were at it, I remember it used to be just a little building.

http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/library/library.html

I'm going to have to go over there and check out this cookbook
collection, although I can't borrow from them.

nancy