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In the News
Fairmount Community Library History and Press
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At the Fairmount Community Library among the fiction, nonfiction and biography bookshelves, yoga teacher Brooke Blankenship led a group of young, energetic yogis to their purple yoga mats. They channeled their inner narwhal and diamond while mimicking animals and shapes in their poses. They voiced how they were feeling: happy and confused. They repeated an affirmation with their eyes closed: “Peace begins with me.”
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From Shoutout DFW:
We had the good fortune of connecting with a Fairmount Community Library board member, and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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The city of Brock, where Kat Valentine grew up, didn’t give her what she needed — arts and community.
When she moved to Fairmount 17 years ago, she got everything she hoped for — the bustling activity and art scene on Magnolia Avenue and the tight-knit community in the neighborhood.
One of her favorite places to go early on was the Fairmount Community Library, which will host its grand opening on Sept. 9 after a series of openings and closings through the past 10 years.
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In the heart of the Fairmount neighborhood, a community library sits with its doors closed and insides as tattered as a much-loved book.
Once the Fairmount Community Library at 1310 W. Allen Ave., the place offered activities beyond books — Scrabble nights, food drives, poetry nights and live music.
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by Sara Karashin
Since its reopening in 2015, the Fairmount Community Library’s unofficial motto has been “More Than Just Books” and that statement has never been more true than it is now. While the lounge has just been updated with new bookshelves and the card cataloguing process continues with new children’s picture and chapter books, anyone who stops in will hopefully agree that there is more to find at the library than literature.
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Hit up Magnolia for brunch, and then digest by walking through Fairmount Park on South Henderson Street, across from the Fairmount Community Garden. Then make the quick one-block, four-minute walk to the Fairmount Community Library. The library is run by volunteers and offers Wi-Fi, an indoor reading lounge, coffee and patio. Browse its catalog or read up on the history of city with “A Brief History of Fort Worth: Cowtown Through the Years” by Rita Cook.
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