PINE LIBRARY

1975 when a group of women who regularly met to play cards and trade books gained the building in an effort to give back to the community.

e library is home to an incredible collection of Pine Grove history, including interviews with dozens of Pine Grove residents, who talk about how the community has changed since the 1960s. Residents talk about stories from their grandparents, who arrived to the area on covered wagons, as well as daily life in the community.

Transcriptions and VHS recordings of the interviews are available, which can be played on the library’s e library is open from 3-6 p.m. ursdays and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, and will also be holding a large book sale from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 2 as part of a Pine Grove community celebration. All funds raised at the sale will go toward improving the library’s outdoor bookshelves and storage shed. en, as we approach forty — the dreaded marker for middle age — fear sets in because we know we’re at the point when unpleasant stu

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For Pine Grove residents, these interviews tie the present to the past. Volunteer Carly Martin moved to the area two years ago and has spent her recent volunteer shifts at the library mining through these interviews for any mention of the cabin she now lives in, which was built in 1890.

“When you’re coming through Pine Grove, if the open sign is out there, come in and say hi,” McIlvaine said.

As I’ve aged, I’ve wryly commented on, as you might have about your own, my diminishing physical capabilities, plaintively decrying I can’t do such and such — running, skiing, climbing —l ike I used to. And like you might’ve, I’ve occasionally spouted George Bernard Shaw’s lament that youth is wasted on the young.

Our bodies usually peak in our mid to late twenties. By our early thirties, muscle starts to weaken, and the hard work of staying t becomes increasingly challenging. And from then on, it’s an exercise to exercise, an inexorable decline with the going getting tougher as our capabilities ebb.

Like every living being, we humans have a shelf life. ough I can’t speak for other sentient beings, I believe that as we mature, like them, we grow wiser. In conjunction with that, our perspective and attitude about our abilities and interests usually grow. For those relishing and thriving on physical activity, dedication to keeping t and maintaining strength deepens. But paradoxically, that mature attitude sets in shortly after our physical growth spurt ends and our bodies begin to decline.