They encouraged him to become an independent researcher instead of relying on staff for answers. Bosquez found the staff responsive to his requests for more play scripts. Gomez perceived them as non-judgmental and respectful. The Seminary branch allowed confirmation candidates to serve their required community hours there.īargas found Seminary staff to be professional and accepting. Her father, away at times because of military obligations, took her to the library, where they grew closer. She found family book trips a bonding experience. As a grandmother, she continued the family legacy of book reading by taking her grandchildren to the branch. Rios saw first-hand the value of the Seminary branch in the “Mommy and Me” reading program offered to toddlers and infants.
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Bosquez recalled as a teen in the 1980s the joy of sitting for hours reading plays and movie scripts and about directors’ lives. After reading Spiderman comic books to him, his father challenged him to read on his own. Rob Bosquez, local playwright, director, short story writer, whose works have appeared on Stage West, Hip Pocket Theater, and Rose Maine Theater, relished the convenience of walking to the Seminary branch as a child with his father. Wishing to become Nancy Drew, she said, “that was her girl.”
Bargas as a teen discovered the Nancy Drew mystery series at the Seminary library. in 1967, it became the reading Mecca for thousands of monolingual and bilingual South Side residents. When the Seminary South Branch Library opened at 501 E. Their parents stressed the importance of reading to improve their speaking skills in English and to avoid school punishment for speaking Spanish. Victoria Bargas and Laura Tobias Rios, life-long Fort Worth residents, recalled the joy of going downtown to the Central Library on weekends or the bookmobile at the Seminary South Shopping Center on Thursdays in the 1950s and 1960s.
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