Alabama NewsCenter – English lessons at rural Alabama library help build community

By: Payton Davis

Every Tuesday and Thursday, a handful of Collinsville community members make their way to a small room in the back of the Collinsville Public Library where Robin Rowan teaches an English class for non-English speakers.

Rowan, a Collinsville native and Auburn University graduate, spent more than 30 years living in California where she fell in love, made lifelong friends and experienced a world much larger than her small-town home. The sci-fi lover returned to Collinsville and completed a degree in Spanish from Arizona State University in 2022.

Just a few months ago at the library, where Rowan works, she was approached by the head librarian, Jennifer Wilkins, about re-starting an English program through Northeast Alabama Community College that didn’t survive COVID.

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