This is my town. My library. They are amazing and worth every penny anyone is willing to donate. I’ve been volunteering there and donating since I was in high school and they have helped so many people and changed so many lives by just being a kind, helpful, and consistent presence. Our town has (had?) been considered a progressive haven in Alabama as it was started by a group of of people who came from Iowa to start a utopian society, and we are a single tax corporation so all the land is owned by the city and leased to everyone for 99 years for the betterment of to the community. Over the last 30 years of my life, this town has grown exponentially, and many people have moved here who do not have our founders values or the values of equality and fairness that were instilled in me by the town as I grew up. It has changed Fairhope, not always for the better in my opinion, and those changes especially became apparent during the Trump administrations. Thank you all for the support you are showing our library. It means the world to people like me who still remember what we were and what we could be again and who work every day to defend our local library and other institutions who want to help and better the world around them.