I took a look at Kate Roberts' "Minnesota 150; the people, places, and things that shape our state," (2007) and found Gratia Countryman among the 150. The book quotes a 1935 Minneapolis Journal article, as follows:
"Minneapolis loves and honors Gratia Countryman most because she traveled and tramped its streets in the early days to study the reading needs of each of its little outlying districts; because she has had thought for the bedbound, the povertybound, and trouble-bound, and has offered them her greatest solace, books; because she has believed and still believes that taking books to people who need them is her job; because she does that job with the sympathetic understanding which makes a book a benediction."
Something to think about as we consider cutting the Children's Readmobile and some of the Outreach programs.
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