This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Books Still a Passion for Cherryvale Woman
Imogene Littell, a 69 year old Cherryvale resident, has built a 2000 plus book collection with hundreds of author autographs. Her life-long reading habit began with her mother’s push and a love for works by McCord, Stratton Porter, and Holman. Her husband started autograph collecting in the 1960s, signing pages from publishers for authors like Wouk, Temple Black, Cagney, Sandburg, and Cosby. Littell finds memory and growth in reading, often juggling four books at once, and cites works by Saint Exupery and Thornton Miller as life changing. Her husband, John Littell, was Cherryvale mayor and wrote history volumes on the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imogene Littell
Kansas
Cherryvale
Littell
Lottie McCord
Gene Stratton Parker
Mary J. Holman
Vivian Vance
Herman Wouk
Humphery Bogart
Pearl Bailey
Shirley Temple Black
James Cagney
Cagney
Carl Sandberg
Abraham Lincoln
Bette Davis
Bill Cosby
Gen. Douglas McArthur
Kathryn Hepburn
Our Town
Thornton Miller
Emily
Mom
Papa
Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
John Littell