Thursday, May 24, 2012

William Jeanes Memorial Library


Montco couple's gift transforms library. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/21/2012)

Excerpt: Founded in the 1930s in memory of a local Quaker farmer known never to miss a Sunday meeting, the William Jeanes Memorial Library was not wearing its age well when the Karabots proffered a portion of their fortune.

With their $4.4 million gift two years ago, the couple assured the rebirth of the library as a cutting-edge atheneum, fashioned from the dilapidated shell of its former self.



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