<div dir="ltr"><div><div><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:31px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;line-height:37px;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/140856930143/lida-penfield" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:31px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;text-transform:uppercase;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">LIDA PENFIELD</a></h2><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Penfield Library at the State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego) is named after Lida Scovil Penfield (1873-1956).<span class=""> ...  </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Penfield was an authority on Oswego history. She wrote<span class=""> </span></span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.com%2FB003RGI8ZI&t=YTYzYzA0MTU4MTM0ZGJhMDhiZDE4NzhhYjM5NDBkZjQ1MWE1NzUyNCxSYXlYOHlzMQ%3D%3D" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Stories of Oswego</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>for children of the Oswego Normal School. In it, Penfield wrote about Native Americans and the first European settlers in Oswego, the history of Fort Ontario, and how the starch industry made Oswego famous....<br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">More at <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/140856930143/lida-penfield">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/140856930143/lida-penfield</a><br><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Submission information:  <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2016">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2016</a><br clear="all"></span><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i><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