The Weezie Library for Children

In 1959, in Syosset, Long Island, New York, a ten-year old girl named Louise Frances Walker, known by the affectionate nickname of "Weezie," died in a tragic accident in the paddock of a horse farm. Soon thereafter, her parents, Elisha and Lucile Walker of Syosset, established a charitable foundation in loving memory of their child. They named it the Weezie Foundation.

The Weezie Library for Children

Years later, Weezie's oldest sister, Lucile, married William Hays, and the couple moved to Nantucket. When Lucile Walker Hays, a member of the grant committee of the Weezie Foundation, learned that the Nantucket Atheneum was raising funds to rebuild and restore its 150-year-old building, she immediately thought that that was just the kind of project the foundation should support.

The result of Lucile's thoughtful effort is the wonderful and harmonious new addition to the Atheneum, the Weezie Library for Children. The Weezie Library is a gift to Nantucket and generations of its children, in memory of, Weezie Walker a beautiful child who will always be ten years old.