Lucy Richards Tweedy dedicated bench - North Attleboro, Massachusetts USA
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Beneath a large shade tree off the southeast corner of her family's namesake library, is a stone bench dedicated to Lucy Richards Tweedy. She was the granddaughter of one of the siblings who donated the Richards Memorial Library to North Attleboro.
Waymark Code: WM1085B
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2019
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Beneath a large shade tree off the southeast corner of her family's namesake library, is a stone bench dedicated to Lucy Richards Tweedy.
The Richards Memorial Library was built and gifted to the Town of North Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1894 by a trio of siblings as a memorial to their parents Edmund Ira Richards and Lucy M. Richards. Lucy Richards Tweedy was their great-grandaughter. She was a longtime supporter and visitor to the library. Ms. Tweedy left a gift of $100,000 to the library's endowment upon her death on November 7, 2015.
The bench is engraved across the front face of the seat, its carved letters painted back:
1932 LUCY RICHARDS TWEEDY 2015
A FRIEND OF THIS LIBRARY
Source: Great-granddaughter of North Attleboro library namesake bequeaths $100,000 to its endowment, The Sun Chronicle, Feb 8, 2016