Very cool. Seems like it has all the things many modern libraries should pivot to offering where possible.
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How many people did it take to get this done? It looks fantastic for something that is just getting started.
A large number. Construction crews, architects, all kinds of stuff. The funeral home it used to be had to be gutted and remodeled. They had to do stuff like get rid of the embalming fluid smell in the basement. Plus all the permitting and stuff. She only told me a bit about it and because it's been such an exhausting process, I haven't really pressed her on details unless she offers them.
I do know that there was such a rush to get it open by yesterday that my wife was out doing things like spreading gravel with the maintenance people to get it done in time.
Well a hearty well done to everyone involved. And thank you for showing it to us. It is refreshing to see examples of people building up their community when the majority of news focuses on negative events.
Tell her thank you. Awesome job. Now can we put one of these in every town?
Heeeey whats up my fellow hoosier. Cheers to your bookstore!!
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It's beautiful! The post isn't public on imgur or I would upvote you there too!
Looks great fellow Hoosier. Terre Haute needs more of this.
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The link is in the headline as always with these things, so I don't understand.
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Congrats.
Is Terre Haute really that poor? Not what I'd expect from the hometown of one of our country's most premier private technical colleges. Usually a college contributes quite a bit to the local economy, and that's a fancy one.
Average household income is ~$40,000, which is about half the national average, and there's a lot of joblessness, homelessness and substance abuse.
Rose-Hulman is a great school, but the school is outside of town and there's no bus from there to town either, so they don't go. We actually have three schools here- RHIT, Indiana State Univeristy and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The students of all of them rarely leave campus. And I don't blame them because in general, there's fuck all for them to do.
It's a pretty tiny school. Only around 2k students.
Oh, I see. That is really tiny.
I didn't understand what imgur had become before I clicked the link and briefly thought the library had lots of copies of Twisters in 4k.
More books would be nice, but the rest looks awesome. A great place for the community.