The Little Free Library

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VIRGINIA, Falmouth

Washington Street~~~Artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne were booklovers. Despite the demands of his studio schedule Gari Melchers devoted his morning hours to his newspapers made time for a good novel or history and enjoyed studying the pages of his many art books. Corinne Melchers too loved the classics contemporary novels biographies and books related to her interests in painting horticulture and American cultural history. Her brothers encouraged the couple’s interest in books. Brother Leonard Mackall a bibliophile with a column in the New York Herald Tribune acquired many first editions and rare books for the couple, many of which relate to the Netherlands where the couple resided for many years. Brother Lawton Mackall was a writer as well and is best remembered as a renowned restaurant critic though he was also a humorist magazine editor and even worked on a Hollywood screenplay.
It is fitting that Belmont should become the setting of a Little Library project in Stafford County. For decades Corinne Melchers worked diligently to improve the way of life for the people of Stafford County especially through her charitable work with the Stafford County Public Health Association and the local chapter of the American Red Cross.