Wisdom Library Grand Re-Opening

Hard to believe that the town of Wisdom has skated through much of its history without a library, but alas it is shamefully true. Bar stools and food counters have been the dispensary of free flowing male dominated knowledge for decades. And if you could show a talent for speaking while tongue-rolling a used toothpick, you might even be considered educated by default.

A few of our sage individuals have been elevated to community seer-status for unusual reasons: framed diplomas from unknown universities hanging on walls, mounted National Geographic Society membership letters, or a strange ability to use words of more than four syllables in complete sentences. Unfortunately, fact-checking the true wisdom of these local, mostly male, lunch-counter Wisdomites has been a near impossible task. Until now.

He’s so narrow- minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

Recognizing that the word Sage has at least two definitions…and one of them is not a common shrub of the high plains…the Women of Wisdom chose to identify the problem and then solve it. “What we have here is failure to communicate”, they recently claimed. And with that they re-institutionalized our local Wisdom Library, the doors of which were first cracked in 1932.

At last, the local Women’s Club has corrected Andrew Carnegie’s oversight in granting a free library to Anaconda instead of Wisdom, Montana. No longer will local cowboy pundits be able to claim educated authority on the politics of the day by avoiding footnotes to their comments. Now we can run to our own library and fact-check their buts…and ands, and ifs. In effect the women of this town have demanded a higher level of educated dialogue from our community members. No more blow-hard pontificators at the lunch counters. No more bloviating know-it-alls. We’ve upped our standards. Now up yours!

Go forth and educate yourselves at our new Wisdom Women’s Club Library. It is now open, on Wednesdays only from 4pm to 7pm. The cost is $5.00 to join or $10.00 for a family group. There is no phone yet, but contact Denice Strickland, Box 65 Wisdom, Montana 59761