lived in the townships of sixty eight sixty seven and i lived in the northern end first and eventually moved to the southern  and i've used the library as a change form over the years with kids and without kids right now i'm using it for preview where you can sign up for the book before it's publishing get first in line for the book which saves you a lot of money on hard copy books and today i'm picking up a preview of a michael connelly mystery and the last i think are next to the last  about a sweet tradition that started at the peters township library when my daughter was about six years old and she loved to cork and they had a cooking contest for children because peters was always good about having things other than books for kids and so we decided to enter something we called ginger gems and we made gingerbread from a box put it in half filled bought little miniature bought kits cake pans and made the little bunk cakes and then we made a lemon glaze out of milk and lemon juice and powdered sugar and we dribbled it over there and put a little dab cream on the plate and she entered her ginger jebus and she won and was very excited and continued to cook but years later now every year when i go to the soup and stroll at the right house the historical house i have to bring an old fashioned dessert so i bring ginger gems every year that started at the library s when my kids were young my older daughter was about nine they had a cake decorating class for kids and her best friend's mother taught the class rachel thank her is mother and they  had a wonderful time so much so that i bought a sixty dollars kit of tips and bags so they could continue decorating cake well eventually i went looking for the cake decorating kit to make a cake for my grandchild and i found my daughter had stolen it and she had it in her house and i said hey and she said oh i need it and turns out she's making birthday cakes for her kids every year it's a tradition in their house that should they get to ask for a special she cake and she's made things like the full thomas engine and my little pony with a rainbow in the background and other cakes that they've requested because that's their enthusiasm of the moment so that's another sweet tradition started at the peters township library hi i'm welcome to the peters township public libraries local history room over the last ten years or so we've assembled a very broad collection of material from township residents relating to the history of the community including oral histories and many many many photographs some of which are available on the library's web site we have many other artifacts here as well with me today is bob moore and he will be doing a program later in the afternoon and let him say a few words so that bob more than one nine hundred sixty eight peters township high school graduate last class from the old school and starting about four years ago i was an early joiner to a facebook page that sally patz runs calls peter's township a trip down memory lane and i do a lot of peters township history posting to that group a year ago i was in that i live in wisconsin a year ago i came back for a multiclass high school reunion and one of the crevasse daughters offered me her  well and sharing other information with friends and it really excited to be able to have a chance to give a presentation about peters township history because in part i'll be showing things from the those old newspapers which aren't yet digitized but will be and but also there's so many other resources that a lot of people don't seem to know about and the point of my talk is to say wow look at the you know here's a look at these sorts of things you can find here and then have the websites available in a handout so that whoever is in arrested in any aspect can go on their own time and just spend as much time as they want the real pleasure to be here the library has sixty year anniversary also reminds me of the fact that i'm getting a lot older thank you and i was an early user i remember going to the basement of the school administration building on the first move to the township and then when it moved into the top floor of here that few years ago i finally found out what i want to show to more pictures that are very meaningful to me from our shows i work and then two years ago i watched most of that land so this is i went down a million dollars a relatively new road and comes down you know and just parked in the traffic in the turn around area and this was looking straight towards that's one example and then you know if you go to google earth or cool satellites you get this incredible resolution and so i'm blowing up parts of this map and if you at this point you can get a larger going to still and then one thing i didn't learn about a whole a few months ago is that there is a company that went around blind small airplanes taking pictures and trying to sell the photos to people and so that all labels but of what's there the school district has of websites and history on it and so this is just the first page of it but it shows have a lot of interesting thought of that fact about all sorts of things such history photos that have an awful lot of information on them that i find interesting the physical resources in this library for history are are really amazing  upset there is a battle over whether the school should be credit sixty's they got too b and then to correct what old people like me still call the new high school was it was a gap of a few years although it was originally supposed to open in six people rally and it is understandable