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When my mother was growing up in Southport back in the 1930s and ’40s she visited the Pequot Library on a regular basis. She and her family lived in a white two-story house on the Old Post Road (where the Southport Green development now sits), she would walk over to the Pequot Library, sometimes taking the route through Southport Village or sometimes around past the Wakeman Boys/Girls Club. They were poor so buying books was out of the question.
Once at the library, she immersed herself in the atmosphere, reading books for pleasure or for her classroom work at Pequot School and later at Roger Ludlowe High School. It was a special treat, she tells me, when the fireplace at the library was blazing. Being there was one of her greatest joys as a young adult.
I must admit I have not gotten to know the Pequot Library quite like my mother did. My greatest joy involving the Pequot is attending its annual Book Sale in July. I have a book-buying obsession. I have a large collection of fiction, true crime, biography and autobiography and am always eager to add to it. Despite having to share the space under the tents and in the building with hordes of other bibliophiles (the areas can get pretty cramped sometimes with lookers), I can get lost for hours scanning titles of used books I may buy.
But the Pequot Library offers more than books. Check out its website and you will see there are events to satisfy all generations. Case in point, this weekend’s Children’s Picture Book Festival. Fourteen award-winning authors and illustrations, including the U.S. children’s poet laureate, will be on hand to open the world of books and art to children.
The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 21. Admission is free. For an article on the festival, read Meg Barone’s offering on the Fairfield Citizen website.
And then gear up the library’s Mid-Winter Book Sale, which will take place from Jan. 15 to 18. The sale focuses on fiction “in a seemingly limitless array of genres,” reads the billing on the library’s website.
I just may have to stop by.

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