Welcome New Board Trustee
Sally Brasher
The library is very pleased to welcome its newest Board member, Sally Brasher. Sally, originally from Colorado Springs, has lived “back east” for the last 40 years. She is currently a professor in the History Dept. at Shepherd University where she has spent the past 18 years teaching European and World history. She and her husband Niel recently built a house and moved to the Shepherdstown area with the aim of becoming a part of this wonderful community they have come to love. They have two grown children, Kelsey and Charlie, and a daughter-in-law, Meghan, who live in the Washington D.C. area and an adorable grand-puppy named Riley.
Sally is a passionate bibliophile and research nerd and is most at home in library stacks or a good, dusty archive. Her research interests revolve around Italian history, particularly medieval women, urban society, and charity. She has published two books on these subjects and is working on a third on medieval Sicily.
Says Sally, "I inherited my love of libraries and public service from my mother, Melba Mayall. She volunteered tirelessly for her public library for over 40 years. She passed away this year at the age of 99, and I look forward to honoring her memory by carrying on her tradition of service and her love of public libraries with my service on the Board of the Shepherdstown Public Library."
