Memoirous

I'm passing this on from Vermont College of Fine Arts regarding author Kate Messner, who started a drive to help a tiny library in a poor area. ** I'd gone with my meteorologist husband to take photographs of flood damage in Essex County, just to our south. Roads were washed out, bridges closed or in pieces, familiar sights to anyone who's seen news coverage coming out of Vermont this week. But these tiny towns along Adirondack rivers haven't gotten much media attention. "Go on up ahead," one town supervisor told us from his pickup. "You need to see Upper Jay. It's awful." We made our way through roads that were down to one lane, and took detours when there was no road. As we drove around a bend in the road today, my husband slowed down. "Whoa…look at all the stuff in front of that house." But it wasn't a house. It was the library. They lost virtually their entire children's collection. All of the picture books...