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NaNoWriMo - Get Inspired to Write!

Library shelves are filled with a seemingly endless number of books, brimming with stories written by talented authors. It’s easy to pick up a novel and start reading, and it might stir the spirit of creativity inside of you.

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Rev. Albert A. Lings, 1844-1915

Born in the German duchy of Baden, but brought to the United States as an infant, Father Albert Lings is eminently worthy to be counted among those figures reckoned as pillars of Yonkers. 

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Ervin Saunders, 1848-1909

Ervin Saunders, who was born on April 3, 1848, was one of the six sons of David Saunders, the founder of David Saunders & Sons, a successful tool manufacturing business located on Atherton Street (the street which now separates the library

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Charles E. Gorton, 1845-1922

Charles Eugene Gorton died on June 5, 1922, after a career of 50 years’ service to the Yonkers public schools, beginning in the early 1870s as a teacher in Public School 2.

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