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Children carrying books from bookmobile

Marianne Brish Evett wrote this description of her days as a bookmobile driver in the early 1950s. It was written as a theme in freshman English at Randolph-Macon Women's College. She was encouraged to expand and polish it for the college Prose and Verse, an annual anthology of the best student writing. The library republished it.

Marianne was a page mostly in the Children's Room at the Washington County Free Library during high school, graduating in 1950. She writes: