The

Fayette County Public Library recently conducted

its second annual Founders Day program, honoring

the five founders of the library.

Those

include Lucy Reagan Redwine, Mattie Lena Blalock

Ingram, Lucille Alladio Busey, Louise Culpepper

Murphy and Lynne Payne Beadles. These ladies, now

all deceased, began their efforts for a town

library in 1929 and in 1948 they opened the first

permanent library in the building on Lee Street,

now occupied by the Fayette County Historical

Society.

Last

year, the library unveiled a permanent marker

outside the library in its gazebo.

"We

do not want these ladies to be forgotten,"

said library director Chris Snell, "so each

year we will take a day to honor them."

This

year's program consisted of a celebration of

storytelling with Dr. David Hobson, a celebration

in dance with Georgia Youth Ballet

representatives Randi Loudermilk and David Gant,

the reading of a poem about the founders by its

author, Collin Mitchell Kelley, and a celebration

in song by K. Lynne Collier.

remembrance of the ladies was given by county

historian Carolyn Cary.

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