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Lyme Libraries in the 18th and 19th Centuries?
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Lyme Libraries in the 18th and 19th Centuries?

Long before a Lyme Public Library was established in 1914, town residents in the 18th and 19th centuries organized a number of ways to lend and borrow books. A surprise? Not really. Although there were  books in print, they were not generally  accessible or affordable to the general population.  It was the case then, just as now,…