Library book returned after 84 years
A Louisiana library says a book borrowed 84 years ago has been returned by the son of the woman who checked it out as an 11-year-old girl.
A librarian’s note on the Shreve Memorial Library’s Facebook page says the son found the Spoon River Anthology while cleaning the house.
A library official says it’s in “pretty rough shape”, so probably not worth much.
The Spoon River Anthology is a book of free verse by Edgar Lee Masters, each poem written from the viewpoint of a dead person in the imaginary town.
In a reply to a patron, the Shreveport-based library posted: “We thought that the title was appropriately spooky to turn up again after all this time right around Halloween.”
The library said its maximum fine is about $4, and that was waived.
