{"id":358,"date":"2013-03-21T14:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-03-26T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:31:07","slug":"cliff-island-stone-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Island&#8217;s library: The Stone Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Island&#8217;s library\u00a0is probably the\u00a0only official library in Casco Bay\u00a0that is housed in a classic turn-of-the-century cottage, built in 1907. Perched on a hillside, just beyond the community hall, which houses the post office and historical society, this beautiful library was named after Floraetta Stone (The Stone Library), a co-founder of the library (1907) and the Cliff Island Library Club which still operates the library. The library offers services in the summer only (although has been known to be open in the winter in the past). The paid librarian, Amy Lent, is also the postmaster (a true Mainer!). Although the library is technically a membership library, it balances being a public library by offering services to anyone who needs it. Books, books-on-tape, CDs, DVDs are offered, as well as classic Maine books &#8211; all of which can be accessed through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cliff-Island-Stone-Library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-359\" alt=\"Cliff Island Stone Library\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cliff-Island-Stone-Library.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>library&#8217;s automated catalog. There is even a teen room. Best of all is a wonderful porch where one can sit and enjoy reading, while gazing between the trees at the water. What more could one want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Island&#8217;s library\u00a0is probably the\u00a0only official library in Casco Bay\u00a0that is housed in a classic turn-of-the-century cottage, built in 1907. Perched on a hillside, just beyond the community hall, which houses the post office and historical society, this beautiful library was named after Floraetta Stone (The Stone Library), a co-founder of the library (1907) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cliff Island&#8217;s library: The Stone Library<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81],"tags":[149,155,156,157,318,52],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","tag-casco-bay","tag-cliff-island-library","tag-cliff-island-stone-library","tag-floraetta-stone","tag-libraries","tag-maine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}