Merrick Public Library

Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The Friends of the Library cordially invite you to an open house at the library to say “Farewell!” to two library employees. Julia and Samantha will be leaving the library soon, so please join us as we gather to say our goodbyes. In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to meet the Friends, learn about what they do, and discover how you can get involved. Light refreshments will be served.

The document pictured on the left is the Pledge of Allegiance (c.1923), which hung in the original Brookfield High School, and is currently on display in the library. The original Pledge of Allegiance was written in August of 1892 by Baptist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931) and published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy’s hope was that the Pledge would be used by citizens in any country. In its original form, the Pledge read: “I pledge allegiance to

The Merrick Public Library in Brookfield recently had the pleasure of accepting a generous donation of historical iris rhizomes in honor of the late Robert Wilder Sr., local historian. Mr. Wilder had previously secured one of these irises from his family’s homestead to preserve its provenance, and requested the iris be given the name “Enfield Memories,” after his hometown of Enfield, Massachusetts, disincorporated in 1938 to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir. The thoughtful