BOSTON — On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" from the New Bedford Free ...
"All of us are just, you know, wondering where the book could have been for so long," said the director of the St. Helena Public Library Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...
They can close the book on this. An overdue book was recently returned to a suburban New York library nearly 90 years to the day it was checked out — and only incurred a surprisingly low $5 late fee.