Griff, is that you house? Colour me green with envy if so. My folks' house was that way. When they passed, we donated more than 10,000 books to a youth center.
I am reading The Kingdom of Nauvoo by Benjamin Park. Grew up near there and we would camp at a park nearby. Later when I was a freshman in highschool I got the chance to take some summer college courses one I took was Utopian Communities of the 19th Century. We did a day trip to Nauvoo for it, I had to ride with the professor as I was the only one who could not drive, I was a weird kid. At least I also took a BASIC programming course, it made the twitch in my dad's eye slow when he saw the Utopian Communities enrollment. I stayed with programming all through highshool, first a sinclair from the back of Popular Mechanics, to a Commodore, then a TRS80. Ah, the early days, had I stayed would have ended up in silcon valley with my other highschool nerd chums. Glad to be a chemist in the midwest.