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 house.
A library official says it’s in “pretty rough shape,” so probably not worth much. “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 $3, and that was waived.
(AP)
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84 years ago the fine was probably a penny per day. That would be $306.60.
Shame they missed out on Book Amnesty Month….. Rikers Island
Recently the Library of Congress recovered a book charged out to a member of Congress around 1860. When the member’s state seceeded for the civil war, he kept the book. When the descendants tried to sell it, the book store called the FBI.