Editor's Notebook

There are things about my memories that I don’t understand.

In recent days I have been researching the history of two Commercial Avenue buildings, the former Carnegie Public Library building at Fourth and Commercial and the former Masonic Lodge building at Third and Commercial.

What I remember differs from what I have learned in my research.

For example, I remember both a museum room and the Christian Science Reading Room located in the basement of the library. When visiting the library, I liked to go downstairs and look at the museum collection. I never visited the reading room but until rece...