Nancy Young wrote:
> 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


Thanks, Nancy. That provides enough information for more searching.

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Jean B.