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ESSEX WALL OF LITERARY FAME

About Essex…

“There’s a real life of the mind. There’s a lot of talent here — theatrical, literary — but it’s not self-conscious, the way Aspen or Woodstock is. I think of Martha’s Vineyard 40 years ago.” George Hearn on Essex, quoted in the New York Times, October 13, 2006

The Essex Wall of Literary Fame

The Belden Noble Memorial Library Board has created the Essex Wall of Literary Fame to honor full or part time adult residents of the Town of Essex who have successfully published, by an independent publisher, at least one print book of prose (fiction or non-fiction) or poetry for public distribution or sale.

While many of those honored on the wall are accomplished authors in their fields – some with national or worldwide reputations — others have been honored for more modest but important achievements.   All have shown, through their enthusiasm for writing and the written word, a love of language and through it a desire to share their ideas, experiences and expertise with others.

Both the number and variety of those so honored in such a small town is remarkable as is testified by the contents of this book and the pictures on the wall.  Essex is a very special place for many reasons – its beautiful countryside and lakefront, its newly thriving farms, its National Historic Register hamlet and the dynamic Whallonsburg Grange.  But in the end it is the people who make a community special.  People like these.  Enjoy getting to know them.  They are your neighbors.

Come visit the Library to borrow the books noted in this collection.

Made possible, in part, by the Essex County Arts Council’s Cultural Assistance Program Grant with funding provided by Essex County.

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Our library offers an upstairs children’s room,  a reading room and  a relaxing deck. These additions to the library are thanks to those who told us how important your library is by donating generously to our capital campaign. Those donations were the seed money that allowed us to apply for grant funds from the State.

The Belden Noble Memorial Library is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity.