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County Library: We Want One Paperweight For the Home The Rattle of Pebbles fromPhoto: from the Montgomery County Fair in Rockville, Maryland This handsome glass paperweight reproduces a photograph, now in the collection of the Library of Congress, taken at the Montgomery County Fair, Rockville, Maryland, 1928. The photo has a dual appeal: it captures the longing (and firm demand) of a rural community for a permanent library and, more subtly, memorializes early traveling libraries and their mission to provide books to people in