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-Photo by Dan Barber ,
Sprucing up
Members of the Bay-Waveland Garden Club donned their work clothes Friday to ! spruce up the grounds of the new City-County Library in preparation for dedication ceremonies Sunday. Landscaping“oTthe grounds isa project co-sponsored by the Library Board. Garden Club, and Friends of the Library. Taking part in the first memorial planting are, from left, Mrs. Dan M. Russeli Jr., HANDS chairman; Mrs. Lelyn Nybo, Memorial Gardens chairman; and Mrs. Herbert Mazarakis, Garden Club president. The red bud tree was planted in the memory of Michael Romanoff, Bay St. Louis student who died in Hattiesburg.
Memorabilia
collection on viewS
All who attend Sunday’s dedication of. ( the new city-county library will also be ( given a chance to see some interesting j and unusual memorabilia collected for the first display case that will be just inside the foyer of the new building.
The contents of the case which will be changed regularly under direction of the library board will have a bicentennial theme during this first month of operation.
The collection of articles on display Sunday are “on loan” to the library by courtesy of Anita Lamb, Joe Pilet,
Olive McKenna, Sue Hensley, and Ix)is Wilson. They were selected by library board president Frances McDonald.
Included in Sunday’s display case will be small replicas of Colonia flags, | and minature reproductions of a j portrait of George Washington by j Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), the “Spirit of j 1776” by A.M. Willard and Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale.	j
A tile entitled “The Emigrants” by Frederic Remington depicting oxen J entering a stream drawing a Conestoga wagon with Indians in hot pursuit is also part of the display as are ancient horseshoes and rocks symbolizing the rugged road toward colonization. ' j
Some examples of the pioneers “treasures” carried West in those early wagons will also be on display and ' include pewter, coin silver, mission vases, and more.
Miscellaneous items on view also include different examples of cut glass, china, and a large iron key that is guaranteed to open the outer door of , Independence Hall.
A bronze plaque attached to the base of the display case records the names of 18 donors who made the purchase of the display case possible.