Last week Hope and I installed our display at the Bar Harbor Library in Massapequa, NY. We went on Tuesday evening (this after going to and from Stamford the day prior to help take down the Stamford Museum layout we had) and spent about an hour and a half setting up the display.
Rick was thoughtful and provided several MOCs including but not limited to the Pikachu mosaic and ILUGNY.org nameplate that he reworked from ILUGNY.com.
Will provided the Winter Village scene that is elevated on the bottom right hand corner of the bottom shelf.
Bill let me borrow his Polar Express seen running across the top shelf of the display.
I added several LEGO related books, a copy of The Polar Express (again-thanks Bill) and 2 copies of Brickjournal to round out the display as well as tie in reading (this is a library after all).
I originally had packed my Prius with many more MOCs and sets to display but the library only had the 2 shelves that we used in this showcase. When I requested 2 shelves I thought that meant 2 shelves running across the entire length of the showcase, not 2 shelves that when placed together would run across 80% of the showcase. Needless to say, much of what I lugged up to the library had to be lugged back down to my car. Thankfully one of the circulation desk clerks was extremely helpful with wrapping boxes that we used to prop models up with, supplying the red fabric to cover other boxes and providing me with a book cart to lug boxes down the wheelchair ramp to my car.
Hope and I went back the next night to add finishing touches such as the I LUG NY logos and LUG description sheet. It is my hope that other adults living in Massapequa will see this display and contact us to learn more and possibly join the LUG.
Thank you to my wife Hope and friends Rick, Will and Bill for loaning their models.
