Cummings, Arthur E. (retired) and David Polansky, musician, and former student of Mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings was also a school principal in Winthrop. The Cummings School is named after him.
Speaker of the House, Robert A. DeLeo (left) brought Michael Caro, VP of AirMall, to the library with a check for the library, which was presented to Library Director Diane Wallace. The Speaker also made a generous contribution. (January 11, 2016)
CREW Poets read their own poetry in the Hazlett Room at the library as part of the Winthrop Arts and Letters Crawl, May 14, 2015.
CREW: Chelsea, Revere, Everett & Winthrop
Two trustees were honored for their work on the Board at their last meeting. Dr. James Matarazzo (10 years) and Mrs. Maria Ferri (4 years). On hand for the festivities were Virginia Wallace (Trustee), Mary Lou Osborne (Library staff), Ron Bergman (Trustee Chair) , Gillian Teixeira (Trustee Secretary), Dr. Matarazzo (Trustee), Maria Ferri (Trustee), Peter Gill (Town Council President), Diane Wallace (Library Director) and Phillip Boncore (Town Council).
Ruth Garcia (of Norwood), Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge and Ronald Bergman, Chair of the Library Board of Trustees, shown with the new book drop that the Lodge purchased. On the front steps of the library.
Ms. Mary O'Brien presents a check for $100,000 to the Library Board from the estate of her late cousin, life-long Winthrop resident Thomas L. O'Brien Jr.
View from the main room of the Frost Public Library (now the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) ca. 1900 into the north reading room. The wall on which Lincoln's portrait hangs, left, no longer exists and the window on the far wall was removed, as was the segment of wall next to it when the Hyde Wing was built in the early 1970s.
View of the main room with original circulation desk, stacks and balcony of the Frost Public Library (now the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) ca. 1900. Most of the architectural details remain save lights and the balcony (rear) which is now walled-in.
Exterior construction of the Frost Building (now known as the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) completed and interior construction underway, February, 1899
