Jamestown  (CSi)  The James River Valley Library System has applied for  Jamestown Tourism Visitor’s Promotion Capital Construction Funds for the Louis L’Amour Project.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said a part of the project is to have the Alfred Dickey Public Library in Jamestown hosting displays, of memorabilia and other items of Louis L’Amour.

Searle pointed out that the project will focus on L’Amour’s Jamestown roots, starting as a child, and through his formative years, that helped shape his successful writing career.

The project will show what L’Amour did while living in Jamestown.

Anyone with ideas of photos or stories may call the Alfred Dickey Public Library in Jamestown.

Searle pointed out others applying for the funds include:  Fort Seward for funds going toward a video, Frontier Village planning restoration of the Midland Continental Railroad caboose at Frontier Village, and the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse with continued restoration.

Applications to receive the Capital Construction funds are accepted twice a year for review, March 1st, and October 1st.

Jamestown Tourism has more information.