{"id":1,"date":"2012-06-29T21:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whitepinelibrary.org\/wp?p=1"},"modified":"2012-09-30T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T00:37:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitepinelibrary.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to White Pine Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Pine Library can trace its roots back to the 1930s and a forward thinking group of women called the Ladies Literacy Club.\u00a0 This group organized a collection of books that was stored in the vault of the Montcalm County Court House and loaned to citizens in the area.\u00a0 Eventually this arrangement no longer met the needs of the book-loving people in Stanton and the surrounding countryside (and the Court House needed its vault back!) so the collection was moved to an empty room in the back of the Smith Brothers Grocery Store on Main Street in Stanton.\u00a0 There the library had 200 books, one table and one chair, and one librarian.\u00a0In 1959 the library moved again, this time to the corner of Main and Camburn and officially became the Stanton Community Library.\u00a0 Here the library remained until 1980.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As the library continued to flourish another group of forward thinking citizens gathered and organized a fundraising plan to build a new library to better serve the growing needs of our community.\u00a0 A new service area was established that included not only Stanton, but Sheridan, Sidney and the surrounding townships.\u00a0 In June of 1980 a new library was constructed. To reflect the library\u2019s new patronage, the library\u2019s name was changed from Stanton Community to the White Pine Library, in honor of all the people the library now welcomes and in recognition of the mighty white pine that once covered our area. \u00a0In 2001, with thanks to many hardworking and generous individuals, the library underwent a major renovation and addition to enhance the current building and provide much needed space for more programming, material and growing circulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The White Pine Library continues to be an important part of Montcalm County and enjoys its role as a center for research, information, recreation and history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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