While there remains quite a few months left in Robert Horvath’s seventeen year tenure as Director of the Talbot County Free Library, the beginning of summer seemed to be a good time for him to reflect on his career there. As Horvath notes in his Spy interview, it was a time of significant physical expansion for both the Easton and St. Michaels branches, historic high levels of special programming and visitors, and the development of a close and steadfast relation with the Talbot County Council allowing the community library to survive post-recession budget shortfalls.
But Bob Horvath also talks about his future as well. Coming along with his retirement is perhaps an even greater challenge as the newly-elected chairman of the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. With a lifetime of collecting some of the country’s greatest illustrators, including Rockwell, Horvath was recruited to lead the museum at a time when Rockwell’s popularity and market value of his work has never been greater. He also expresses his thoughts about Rockwell’s ascendency and why so many are still moved and delighted by his vision of America.
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