Heeeey whats up my fellow hoosier. Cheers to your bookstore!!
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I didn't understand what imgur had become before I clicked the link and briefly thought the library had lots of copies of Twisters in 4k.
Holy crap, that is a legitimately amazing place! Well done by Mrs. Squid!!
P.S. Libraries rock and are true treasures
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Huge W
Every public library is a beacon of hope. Its the most true symbol of a civilized society. Each one brings light of knowledge where there would otherwise be darkness of ignorance.
Please pass my thanks to your wife for advancing civilization.
How many people did it take to get this done? It looks fantastic for something that is just getting started.
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Thank you.
Looks great fellow Hoosier. Terre Haute needs more of this.
More books would be nice, but the rest looks awesome. A great place for the community.
I love how you include a cleanup space. Very cozy 3rd place for people to hangout. Good job dude!
How do you continue to fund this though?
Primarily funded through taxes, but even the local Republicans aren't suggesting cutting the library budget. They're pissed off about the clean-up room because "it will encourage them" (while also complaining about the smelly homeless people in the library), but they also know the library here is super popular. There was a "we love our library" yard sign they were doing a few years ago and they ran out of signs. They have a summer community book read and they did The Martian this year and ran out of free copies.
Such a weird town. A lot of poor people, many of them without advanced education, but a lot of readers as well.
Keep fighting the good fight against ignorance and illiteracy!
Congrats.
Is Terre Haute really that poor? Not what I'd expect from the hometown of one of our country's most premier private technical colleges. Usually a college contributes quite a bit to the local economy, and that's a fancy one.
It's a pretty tiny school. Only around 2k students.
Oh, I see. That is really tiny.
Average household income is ~$40,000, which is about half the national average, and there's a lot of joblessness, homelessness and substance abuse.
Rose-Hulman is a great school, but the school is outside of town and there's no bus from there to town either, so they don't go. We actually have three schools here- RHIT, Indiana State Univeristy and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The students of all of them rarely leave campus. And I don't blame them because in general, there's fuck all for them to do.
I absolutely love this. Good stuff, man.
I really wish Imgur didn't block VPNs 🙁
I'm sure it's lovely - congratulations!
Is that why I see that message instead?
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