Did You Know?
Our nonprofit organization has been your friend for 51 years, offering open hours and programming at Wood Memorial Library. Our organization’s legal name is the Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum, but you may know us as “The Wood” or the folks who put on the annual Gingerbread House Festival. We are your familiar friends, a dedicated board of directors, a huge corps of volunteers and paid staff, Carolyn, Jess, Liz and Leith. Most recently, we opened Nowashe Village on land that we own located behind Wood Memorial Library.
But our organization does not own Wood Memorial Library! From the very beginning when philanthropist William Wood constructed and dedicated a library in memory of his parents, Wood Memorial Library has been held in a Trust, managed by an organization called the Wood Memorial Library Association. This was the case when the Town of South Windsor operated Wood Memorial Library as a public library from 1928 to 1968, as well as since the Friends was founded in 1971 to maintain book lending and programming.
Wood Memorial Library will be Closed this Summer
In recent years the Wood Memorial Library Association has done an excellent job of making various building improvements, some you can see, some you can’t. You may have heard that they are managing an ongoing project to implement a humidity control system and possibly air conditioning. While this isn’t happening just yet, the Wood Memorial Library Association has plans this summer for other various building upgrades, and therefore the Wood Memorial Library building will be closed to the public in July and August.
But that doesn’t mean the Friends are closed!
Our staff will still be working to serve you, so please continue to call and email us with research requests, field trip bookings, comments and questions on Musings from Main, and visit with us inside Nowashe Village! The Friends of Wood Memorial Library & Museum makes history, nature and the arts come alive throughout South Windsor and the central Connecticut River Valley – so visit Nowashe on our Free Family Fun Days in July and August, then shop with us at the 4th Annual Town-Wide Tag Sale, and cruise around South Windsor on a “Hidden in Plain Sight” Tour in August. Not local? Visit our Online Learning Marketplace where you can find scores of videos, interviews and more about local history and Native American heritage.
Visit our Calendar for Upcoming Event Listings!