D.R. Evarts Library, Athens, New York, 1917

 

1800. It was a time when men worked for a dollar a day in zero or below temperatures to cut ice blocks to fill the eleven large ice houses in Athens.    They rode horses or took a stagecoach.    It was a time when children had one pair of shoes and were lucky to attend school.    Still, it is an age looked back on with nostalgia as a simpler time.    It was during this golden age that a studious young boy named Daniel Redfield Evarts was being brought up in modest circumstances.    He came from a large family and had no free access to books.    The local Dutch Reformed minister gave him some books and a small room with light in which he could study. READ MORE HERE:  https://drevartslibrary.org/about/