PAS0 PEOPLE Explore the Peckinpaugh Library By Bob Chute There is a unique gem in our midst. If you haven’t visited the Estrella Warbirds Museum and Woodland Auto Display yet, you should plan to take the time to tour them. Unique is an overused word today but it truly applies to this complex and, because of its popularity and additional donations of items to display, they are currently expanding…with additions to the Woodland Auto Display and other buildings as well. Plus…within this unique gem you’ll find a most interesting resource, the Peckinpaugh Library, named for Charmaine and Don Peckinpaugh who started the library in 2006 with donated books. It was originally located upstairs above Thomson Hall, but with accessibility issues, closed in 2011. Librarian Tom Gorham, along with his wife Mary Anne, Assistant Librarian, volunteered in 2013 to take on the task of moving and re-organizing the collection. In the spring of 2013, over three months, with the assistance of Ron Brooks and a fork lift, they moved the boxes of books, bookshelves and other memorabilia to the library’s Volunteers needed at the Library New Years Resolutions? Watch less TV? Work an evening shift. Need more exercise? Be a shelver. Make new friends? Work in the Friends gift store. Help others? Work a public desk. Learn something new? All of the above. Opportunities abound. Contact Suzanne, 237-3870, or go to www. prcity.com for the volunteer application and more information. Special Children’s Programs During the month of <strong>March</strong> enjoy a variety of special programs for children: • <strong>March</strong> 2, Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, Party, 2- 5 p.m. new home in a much more accessible ground floor facility, the former Gift Shop location within the Hind Pavillion. It then took Tom and Mary Anne over three months to move materials and begin to catalogue everything. “Kudos to the Central Coast Woodworkers who built many of the bookcases for us,” added Tom. “We have approximately 5500 items. Over 3400 hardback books and 140 paperbacks, 1700 magazines from the 1940’s, VHS tapes and DVDs, and models plus press clippings.” The main focus is as a lending library for the Warbirds 500+ members, who may check out four items at a time for a month at a time. The books date from the early 20th Century and WWI, with emphasis on military aviation, weaponry, medals and insignias…plus military and aviation related biographies, space exploration, aviation related encyclopedias, aviation books about English, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish wartime equipment, and much more. They even have a number of children’s books including one written by American 5 Star General “Hap” Arnold for his grandchildren. “I’m most excited about the rarity of our collection,” said Tom. “The Peckinpaugh is also a reference library - we provide incredible resource materials.” The Gorhams have notified all high schools throughout the county plus Cal Poly and Cuesta Colleges about the collection, “We’d love to have more people utilizing this amazing collection and doing their research on site,” said Tom. “We have materials you will never find in a conventional public library. In a secure case we have the entire bound collection of WWI ‘Stars and Stripes’ newspapers. “When our members are restoring an aircraft or piece of weaponry they often comb our library to make sure they have the correct parts to keep everything authentic for the museum’s collection,” said Tom. The Library is open during the monthly dinner meetings, the first Wednesday of every month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., plus every Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the Gorhams on site, and currently, other volunteers staff it on Friday and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “We need more volunteers to be here Friday and Sunday to help out.” AT THE <strong>PASO</strong> ROBLES LIBRARY • <strong>March</strong> 17, St. Patrick’s Day treat, any time • <strong>March</strong> 23, 2nd Annual Peeps Diorama Contest begins, runs through April 30 • <strong>March</strong> 26, PJ Storytime, 6:30 p.m. • <strong>March</strong> 30, Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt begins, runs through April 3 Visit www.prcity.com/library or check the Library & Recreation Services Activity Guide for more information on each event. Alice Ronke’s <strong>March</strong> Exhibit <strong>March</strong> features the art of Alice Ronke, whose style is representational, impressionistic, predominately ODYSSEY World Café Week Night Special in February $16 Includes a Salad and a Glass of House Wine Enjoy Dining on the Patio! landscapes but also includes still life and floral topics. Her goal is to capture the excitement, rhythm, sense of peace, or sheer beauty of a scene. The Yellow Birds, Cuesta’s Book of the Year <strong>2015</strong> In partnership with Cuesta College, the Paso Robles City Library is offering programs centering on The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. • Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 12, at 7 p.m. The library will show a film based on the Librarian Tom Gorham, right, with his wife Mary Anne. Donations are appreciated “We have had people bring in a single box with a few books, to one truck that dropped off 21 boxes of books, old aircraft paintings, firearms and uniforms plus over 200 pieces of telegraphic keys. They told us it was only a portion of their late father’s collection!” For more information, stop by the Peckinpaugh Library at Estrella Warbirds Museum, 4251 Dry Creek Road, in Paso Robles. The museum is open Thursday to Sunday, 10 a.m-4 p.m. Open Mondays on Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Veterans Day. Closed New Years, Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. Phone 805 238- 9317. Group Tours (Minimum of 10 - $8/pp): Monday through Wednesday by appointment, reserved 7 days in advance, (805) 835-1882. personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal, telling the story of the Iraq war from the perspective of the soldiers, specifically an elite Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, fearless bomb technicians whose job is to dismantle roadside bombs while avoiding sharp-shooting snipers. This film is rated “R” no one under age 17 will be admitted without an accompanying parent or guardian. • Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 18 at 7 p.m. A special presentation by United States Air Force SMSgt Brian Fleming. Currently stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Fleming served in Iraq during Operation Enduring Please see LIBRARY page 33 30 Paso Robles <strong>Magazine</strong>, <strong>March</strong> <strong>2015</strong>
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