By CAROLYN CARY
Contributing Writer

The Fayette County Public Library recently conducted its second annual Founders Day program, honoring the five founders of the library.

Those include Lucy Reagan Redwine, Mattie Lena Blalock Ingram, Lucille Alladio Busey, Louise Culpepper Murphy and Lynne Payne Beadles. These ladies, now all deceased, began their efforts for a town library in 1929 and in 1948 they opened the first permanent library in the building on Lee Street, now occupied by the Fayette County Historical Society.

Last year, the library unveiled a permanent marker outside the library in its gazebo.

“We do not want these ladies to be forgotten,” said library director Chris Snell, “so each year we will take a day to honor them.”

This year's program consisted of a celebration of storytelling with Dr. David Hobson, a celebration in dance with Georgia Youth Ballet representatives Randi Loudermilk and David Gant, the reading of a poem about the founders by its author, Collin Mitchell Kelley, and a celebration in song by K. Lynne Collier.

A remembrance of the ladies was given by county historian Carolyn Cary.

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