The program was part of the McCullough Library’s summer reading lineup, which for the first time has been combined with the Bennington Free Library’s summer reading program into a single, shared and collaborative effort. I think we’re up to 220 readers that have registered, and we are about to cross the 200,000 minutes of reading for our readers. A whale named NileChildren and adults inside the life-sized Humpback Whale at McCullough Library in North Bennington. The Whalemobile visit was the seventh of 10 events in the two library’s summer reading series this year. Bradford stressed the success of the combined programming efforts, and emphasized that families still have time to log summer reading.