From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director
We are straying from the Ripley/Brown County area for this week’s postcard. A patron donated this to our collection, and we thought it interesting and hope you do as well. Looking at a 1913-14 Maysville directory, F. H. Traxel & Co. Bakers & Confectioners was listed. In a 1950 article, much was written about their famous beaten biscuits that were shipped all across the United States. By 1950, Traxel’s was a fine dining restaurant on W. Second Street in Maysville.
Our apologies for the downtime of our newspaper archives database. The company that manages it for us was doing an upgrade, and if you were trying to look something up during the last few days, you may have been caught in the “spinning forever” action with no result. As of Monday morning, it seems to be working just fine. There are a few changes and an increase in speed, so all good. We’ve finally boxed up our 2025 newspapers to be sent for processing, so soon they will be available to search. In the meantime, we have most of 2025 in duplicate copies if you need to look something or someone up.
We can tell that the schools are getting close to wrapping up the year as we are having classes visit to get the library tour and the pep talk about our highly anticipated summer reading program. With the theme ‘Unearth a Story’ we get to have fun with dinosaurs, archaeology and just enjoyable reading. We’ll have free bags, reading goals that are pretty easy to reach, and awesome programs. Sign-up will start at all three libraries during the first week of June—not far away! (Ripley June 3rd, Russellville June 4th, Aberdeen June 1st)
Time is ticking on purchasing a RULH Alumni Dinner ticket here at the library. The group needs to have ‘final’ numbers for table set-up as well as food! Tickets are available at the front desk through Monday the 18th.
