The Bachelder Library in East Andover has a new telephone number: 735-5076. Andover Public Library’s number remains the same: 735-5333. Their hours complement each other, and if you can’t remember, check the Web site.

For March, which is traditionally mud season yet may still be snowy winter, we have two New York City (NYC) stories, both set in the past. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney is a marvelous little novel about the highest-paid advertising woman in the country.

Lillian got her start at R. H. Macy’s in the 1930’s, took New York by storm with her wit and candor, and reflects on a long and quite successful career as she faces her 84 birthday.

Graham Moore’s Last Days of Night details the fascinating emergence of the  electric light into NYC life. Young lawyer Paul Cravath is hired by George Westinghouse over a suit by none other than Thomas Edison in the 1880′.  He: who invented the electric light bulb and therefore “holds the right to power the country?”

Ask for these at the Libraries, and don’t forget to read The Beacon and the Town Report so you’ll be informed and prepared for School District and Town Meetings.