It is Wednesday 3 December 2008. We are in the third day of moving and everything is going just as it is supposed to go. We will open to the public Monday morning 15 December 2008 at 10:00. We will be back at The Lake Blackshear Regional Library at 307 East Lamar Street in Americus.

Below are some photos from the first moving day.


A hole needed to be cut into the back wall so the movers could get to the storage area. We have not used all of the shelves we had at Lake Blackshear. We will use them all when we get back. We also stored much of the bookmobile collection back there.


The hole was cut by people who worked for the building owner. Monday morning the movers arrived from High Springs, Florida. These are the same guys who moved us in January.


At Manhattan we have the familiar site of bookcarts all over the place. These carts are huge which enables the movers to put many rows of books. As before, they load up, go to Lake Blackshear and unload.


More carts!


A photo of the books being put on the shelves in the fiction section upstairs at Lake Blackshear.


Wow!! This actually looks normal - at least upstairs.


One of my favorite photos. When we first came into Manhattan I noticed in the cracks of the floor buttons and pins leftover from the shirt factory days. The building has a long history. No telling how long these buttons have been there. Pretty cool stuff!!