New Canaan Library reps, 1913 preservationists met amiably, differences persist
Grace Duffield
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The 1913 wing of the New Canaan Library on Main Street is the center of a controversy as residents try to decide if it should be demolished or not after the new library is built next door to it. Picture taken April 19, 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media
An 11-member working committee with 1913 library preservationists and library representatives came together, facilitated by Selectman Kathleen Corbet, to find common ground.
The working committee was formed after Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman John Goodwin said at a meeting in April that he would like to see library officials and preservationists “be flexible” and discuss the future of the 1913 library amiably. Goodwin was responding to hundreds of letters, thousands of signatures on petitions and disagreements among commissioners expressing strong feelings on both sides of the controversial