The library is located by the grain elevator and has a good view of the trucks and tractors and wagons as they haul grain in from the fields each fall. This year it's been pretty quiet until the last few days as the farmers finally have a break from the rainy weather and harvest is now proceeding at a rapid pace!There was once a time when the majority of children were raised on a farm and were intimately familiar with farm life but that day is past and gone. Nowadays children are fascinated with the big machinery associated with farming and farm life and the library has many good books to satisfy their curiosity.
Check out Vintage Farm Tractors or the Eyewitness book Farm. Also available is the Picture Library book Farm Machinery or the book by Champaign-Urbana author Raymond Bial titled Portrait of a Farm Family which features The Steidinger family of the Fairbury area.
