St. Louis County Library invites the community to join them for an open house at the new Grant’s View Branch:
9700 Musick Road
St. Louis, MO 63123
Friday, March 4, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
There will be refreshments
and a performance by
Christian the Magician at 2:30 p.m. See also a balloon artist, kids crafts, balloons, cake and a clydesdale. A real live one outside the library. Bring your kids and grandkids.
Get directions to Grant’s View Branch library
Grants View Open House, Friday, March 4, 2016 2:00-4:00 pm
Photos of the grand opening
A clydesdale came to the grand opening of Grant’s View Branch library. He was a very popular attraction. The posting on Facebook about his visit read as follows:
“Lots of people, all kinds of people came on Friday for the grand opening of Grant’s View Branch library. Most came for the books, the cake, the crafts, the balloon artist, or Christian the Magician. But one who came could only stand outside looking grand, a gentle giant, a clydesdale. He wore an Anheuser-Busch emblem and came in an Anheuser-Busch trailer. He didn’t take home a book, it is fairly certain to say, but many took home photos of him.”
Christian the Magician wowed the crowd, both kids and adults. As for grand opening entertainment, Christian definitely stole the show. If adults weren’t outright laughing, they were smiling at the reaction of the kids and how one man could be so jam packed with so much goofiness and fun. He was totally non-stop entertainment and completely mesmerizing.
The “house warming card” given to Grant’s View library by SCHS
The photo below shows the “housewarming card” given to the Grant’s View library on Friday by Sappington-Concord Historical Society. SCHS invited other organizations and institutions in the area to join in with messages of congratulations to the library. All of the messages were compiled together and presented with the card on an iPad.
It may be widely acknowledged that libraries have an important role for all of us. Tthey are a community resource that is open to everybody. They serve to educate, inform, and entertain people of all ages, economic and social backgrounds, race, creed etc. They offer their services on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis. They preserve our history and promote knowledgeable means to deal with the issues of the day and to move forward into the future.
As such, libraries and historical societies have something in common: preserving the past to better understand ourselves and our world. The Sappington Concord Historical Society has a specific relationship with Grant’s View library since we have been co-sponsoring presentations on history for several years at the library, formerly Tesson Ferry library.
The name of the new library, “Grant’s View,” is a large nod to the history of the Sappinton-Concord area, that is, it emphasizes the strong roots that Gen. US Grant and Pres. Grant here. And then there is Grant’s Farm across the street from the library and the US Grant Historic site on Grant Road, and then Grant’s Hardscrabble cabin within view of the library. Running along Grant Road is the eight mile Grant’s Trail winding throughout the South St Louis County area. Overall the area is a kind of Grant historic neighborhood.
The “housewarming card” given to the Grant’s View library on Friday by Sappington-Concord Historical Society.
The house warming card was presented on an easel, with messages of congratulations from area organizations presented on an iPad connected to a TV monitor. The touch screen presentation was interactive, as any iPad is, allowing the user to touch expand maps and photos to full screen. The viewer could also swipe though the messages to look at each one individually, each message with its own logo, map and photos. Photos below show SCHS member, Nancy Nowotny talking to a Gran Opening attendee and US Grant Historic Site ranger, David Neumann.
The “house-warming card” was assembled by the Sappington-Concord Historical Society. Organizations sending messages of congratulations to Grant’s View Branch library from the Sappington-Concord and Lindbergh Schools area are shown on the map on the card. The map below shows boundaries of the district for Lindbergh Schools, the area served by the Sappington-Concord Historical Society.
The Grant’s View “neighborhood” includes the Grant historic sites of Hardscrabble, Julia Dent Grant’s family home at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, and Grant’s Farm named after the Civil War general and two term President. In addition, Grant Road and Grant’s Trail, both run through the area and of course both are named for US Grant. Grant’s Trail runs for eight miles through South St Louis County.
Map showing locations of some of the organizations contributing messages of congratulations to Grant’s View library.
