September 1, 2022, 9:54am
Nora Roberts has donated $50,000 to the Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan, which has been prone to shutting down after residents defunded it over librarians’ refusal to take away LGBTQ books.
After the city voted to take away a millage—the share of taxes that gives 85 % of the library’s finances—a number of residents arrange on-line fundraising campaigns in an effort to reserve it. As they obtained assist, each from inside their city and around the globe, they caught the eye of Nora Roberts, whose donation introduced the fundraiser over its $250,000 objective.
Roberts wrote a word to organizers on GoFundMe together with the donation:
Laura Reeth, Roberts’ publicist, wrote in a weblog put up that Roberts had been “appalled” after seeing the Washington Put up‘s protection of the Patmos Library. She added:
I’ve many feelings concerning the vote to defund and Nora’s willpower to assist. After I was 9 years outdated, the primary place I used to be allowed to speak to by myself was the Brooklyn Public Library. Eight blocks down Fort Hamilton Parkway to the magical place the place I may select my very own journey. The place I may replenish summer season days with tales. I went just about day-after-day.
… the thought that entry to the providers a library presents and the cabinets filled with attention-grabbing tales may very well be voted away as a result of folks don’t agree with all the data in these books is a nightmare.
The city will vote on whether or not to revive the millage on Nov. 8.
