The Isabel Babson Memorial Library  was established in 1961  by Roger Babson to honor his forebear, Isabel, who was a midwife. According to a 1989 New York Times article on the library, Roger was inspired by his accomplished ancestral matriarch and motivated by the power of positive thinking and learning to provide a library about … Continue reading The Isabel Babson Memorial Library and Midwifery in the Seventeenth Century