A view of the Circulation Desk, seen from inside the Children's Room.  The egg tree at the right was a Sayville Library Children's Room tradition for more than 35 years.  The tree was made by library custodian Mr. Oertel and the decorated eggs were made by children and adults in the community and donated to the tree.  Some of the eggs were real egg shells.  Others were styrofoam or plastic.  Each year a few were broken or "retired" and new ones took their place on the tree.  Books for Easter and Passover were always displayed by the egg tree.  On the shelves below the egg tree are the children's encyclopedias.
Photograph, dated 1978, from the collection of Sayville Library.