The Recorder - Editorial: Monday Shorts: So hard to say good-bye

Editorial: Monday Shorts: So hard to say good-bye
Greenfield Public Library Children's Librarian Kay Lyons with some of the 3D literary figures on display at the library in this photo taken in 2017. FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 1/18/2021 8:18:12 PM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
Some people come to define an office or a job so completely that you can’t imagine it without them. That was the case with two retirement announcements last week.
In the first, Greenfield Public Library Children’s Librarian Kay Lyons announced she will be stepping down in March after almost 30 years. Books came alive for children thanks to Lyons’ theatrical productions, read-alouds, book parties, book-themed activities and her way of having fun with children, from building parade floats to holding Muggle Quidditch on the library lawn. Who would have thought that a degree in theater was exactly the right background for a children’s librarian? Lyons was hired with a blank slate, which she went on to fill with exuberance.

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