Moomins in Montesano, WA
N 46° 58.866 W 123° 36.048
10T E 454307 N 5203238
Moomins can be found in Montesano, Washington! Be on the look out!
Waymark Code: WMH5A0
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2013
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The friendly staff at the public library in Montesano, Washington, were kind enough to provide me a tour to the portion of the library that contains the Moomin series. While the librarians were not overly familiar with these works, it was most entertaining to observe them observing me as I photographed the volumes, while explaining that I had just traveled a couple of hundred miles (from Portland, Oregon) and had stopped specifically to see these books. I had the feeling they felt I had no real purpose for my life and/or travels, since I should travel so far to photograph a book.
Which seemed to me to prove that while the librarians perhaps had not read the books on the Moomins, they still have a connection with them, as their reaction reminded me of the following Moomin writing:
“Moominvalley in November"
Chapter 5, THE HEMULEN:
.... woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know. He felt even tireder than when he went to bed, and here it was -- another day which would go on until evening and then there would be another one and another one which would be the same as all days are when they are lived by a hemulen.
He crept under the bedcover and buried his nose in the pillow, then he shifted his stomach to the edge of the bed where the sheets were cool. He took possession of the whole bed with outstretched arms and legs he was waiting for a nice dream that wouldn't come. He curled up and made himself small but it didn't help a bit. He tried being the hemulen that everybody liked, he tried being the hemulen that no one liked. But however hard he tried he remained a hemulen doing his best without anything really coming off. In the end he got up and pulled on his trousers.
The Hemulen didn't like getting dressed and undressed, it gave him a feeling that the days passed without anything of importance happening. Even so, he spent the whole day arranging, organising and directing things from morning till night! All around him there were people living slipshod and aimless lives, wherever he looked there was something to be put to rights and he worked his fingers to the bone trying to get them to see how they ought to live."
Really, how ought we to live?
Address:
W. H. Abel Memorial Library
125 Main Street S
Montesano, WA 98563
(360) 249-4211
Entrance fee: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Type of waymark: Moomin items (toys, mugs, fabric, clothes etc.) Make sure you are allowed to take pictures !
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Visit Instructions:
1. Include one picture of the Moomin waymark location and tell about your visit at site.
Also note any changes that may have occurred since the original waymark was created, including physical condition of moomins, accessibility etc..
1. Ota vähintään yksi kuva muumista ja kerro vierailustasi.
Huomioi mahdolliset muutokset, joita on voinut sattua waymarkin tekemisen jälkeen, esim. Muumi kohteen kunnon, saavutettavuuden suhteen.