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Behind glass doors ...: Old library books a look at the past.
From: Destin Log (Destin, FL)
Date: 20070728
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Byline: Fraser Sherman
Jul. 28--At the back of the Destin Library, locked inside wood-walled, glassfronted cabinets, sit pieces of history -- books dating back to and beyond the dawn of the 20th century.
The Zerbe Collection -- named for Destin Library founders Fred and Donalda Zerbe -- holds stories of boy inventor Tom Swift from a time when a book titled "Tom Swift and the Electric Locomotive" meant a story of ground-breaking technology.
They hold old copies of books by famous authors -- Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling -- less famous authors such as ...
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