The following excerpt is from the February 20, 2012 editon of the Newburyport News.
AMESBURY [Massachusetts] — Pending approval from the Municipal Council, the Amesbury Public Library will be receiving $80,000 to help ensure that its valuable collection of historical documents, genealogy records and other vital links to Amesbury’s past is preserved for generations to come.
The donation comes from the Amesbury Public Library Charitable Trust, a fund created by the estate of local historian Sara Locke Redford, who died in 1983. In 1995, her estate left $237,000 to the trust following the death of her husband, James Redford.
