After the Avon Free Public Library got its first addition in the late '90s on Country Club Road, an Avon patron thought it deserved a brand new sign.
Carolyn McGrattan worked for Lauretano, a Terryville sign company at the time. She and her husband had just come back from Columbia with their newly adopted daughter. As she frequently drove by the library, she thought a sign was needed.
So, she took it upon herself to design one. She and her family donated the red sign with gold lettering to the library in 1997.
"It's a book," McGrattan said, noting that you can tell if you look at it from the side. "It's like the pages from a book. It's slightly opened on one side."
McGrattan, who has lived in Avon for 22 years, also is an Avon Historical Society board member. She also recently helped organize the Food for Fines food drive to benefit Gifts of Love, where she works part-time as the marketing and development director.
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