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June 01, 2006
The public library
An evening of family phone calls, working through this latest, unhappy event. One odd moment, though: it seems that my grandfather willed a property, a former Confederate hospital, to the town as a public library. (Bigdaddy died in 1954.) And there was a codicil saying that if the town ever decided to cease using the property as a library, it would revert to my grandfather's estate (which was evenly divided amongst his four surviving children). So yes, the town is now fixin to quit using the building as a public library, and one cousin who's an attorney in the home town is figuring out how to avoid the incredibly complicated situation of all the cousins (there are still seven of us) having to deed the property back to the town. And the cousin who's a retired doctor in the home town is gathering contact info for the rest of us, in case we actually do have to go through some legal proceedings to keep the town in possession of a property that none of us realized wasn't theirs for keeps.
Life never quits seeming strange.
Posted by senioritis at June 1, 2006 09:11 PM