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His nchSl project will make its mmden voyage in thc Cargill Homecoming parade neat mount. After that. he said it's for sale to anyone who's interested "’34 flaked-7‘ Still. glancing over the shelves and reading the titles and author‘s names, it is easy to assume that a great deal of fascina- tion could be found between their pages. About halt of the books still standing in the building were donated by a friend of Con- nell‘s from Toronto. “He had some books that he didn't know what to do with, so he thought it would be a joke to donate them to a library. Here they stand." He-n‘MMhflemnulcâ€"MBdonutcd 7 books are more modern they would pro~ bably make for more interesting reading compared to the older, original ones. Lined along the back of the wall, among National Geographic magazines dated 1967. are old bottles of all shapes and sizes that have been accumulated throughout the years. The owners have no interest in selling the building, but Conneli says it an institution was really interested in the some of the books, there would be no problem with donating them, “It's the people‘s curiosity that keeps them interested in the contents of the building,“ he says. as a general store. The owner, Robert 63a? . thawillage’s postmaster. operated; post office out oi the building. A post office wicket, rarely seen in any building today, stands at the back of the oneroom building. Connell says the wicket is one of the more ‘ teresting features of the structure." When the store went bankrupt, the village took over the building and it became the Pinkeer Library. It was never a branch at the Bruce County library system and was always privately owned. In 1955. the library was sold to a local man who continued to operate it for five years, He too gave up on it, says Connell, and that‘s when the two partners took over the building. Since then, Lhere has been no de- mand to return the building back to library status. Although there are still some ori inal books on the shelves, most have been picked over. When the library closed down, some books were given to the Walkerton Public Library and the Bruce County Historical Board. Village residents also had lirst pick to choose books that lead them through their childhood. What remains today are books that Con< nell says “would not be of any interest to anyone, in my opinion" Not in the best of A few repairs have been made to the building‘s foundation since Conneil and Pinkerton purchased it. but aside from that. Connell says, “it is the last undisturbed structure in this area. It hasn't been turned into anything else or been renovatedrit is a museum piece " Untouched by modernization and a stan- ding time capsule of literature, some may say that attention given to the old library is a little overdue,