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Library History
By Elizabeth C. Pierson
The Curtis Memorial Library at 23 Pleasant Street opened in December 1904, but the history of the library really begins 21 years earlier, in 1883.
It Began with a Letter to the Editor
If an exact date had to be assigned, it would probably have to be Jan. 5 of that year when a letter published in the weekly newspaper The Brunswick Telegraph – and signed only “A Subscriber” – encouraged residents to establish a public library. Although several small private libraries already existed, as did the Bowdoin College library, none met the general needs of the community, particularly at a time when Brunswick was quickly evolving from a farming into a business and manufacturing town.
