JOSEPH GRANO CHILDREN’S INITIATIVE
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Chesley Memorial Library receives grant from the
Robert C. Grano Charitable Fund
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Joseph and Theodora Grano

The Chesley Memorial Library of Northwood, New Hampshire is pleased to announce that they will receive a recurring grant from the Robert C. Grano Charitable Fund, Gulf County, Florida to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his father's immigration to the United States on October 28, 1920. The grant will be used to establish the "Joseph Grano Children's Initiative" to promote exploration of the natural world, music, art, diverse cultures, adventure travel, and craftsmanship.

Joseph Grano emigrated from Campobasso, Molise Region, of Italy with his mother and brothers to join their extended family in Boston, MA and Waterbury, CT, who had lived in the United States since 1887. In 1991, Joseph Grano donated the two-story wing of the Chesley Memorial Library in memory of his wife, Theodora Kalem Grano. Joseph Grano was a renovation contractor from Arlington, Massachusetts who restored and lived in the 1778 Batchelder House in Northwood, originally built on King's Grant land. Due to the widening of Route 4, the 1778 house was moved to Grafton, Vermont and the 1806 barn was moved to the Sanborn Mill Farm in Loudon, New Hampshire.

The Chesley Memorial Library Director, Staff, Friends of the Northwood Library, and its' Trustees, along with the Town of Northwood, are grateful to Robert Grano for continuing his father's legacy of nourishing children's curiosity with experiential education.
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