![]() Steve Rubenstein is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. She figured she could go right home with “Forty Minutes Late” again, for three weeks or 100 years, whichever comes first.īut Herrera, perhaps reluctant to entrust the volume to the extended Webb-Wells-Johnson family for another century, said “Forty Minutes Late” would be temporarily unavailable until it could be properly re-cataloged and evaluated by library historians. After Johnson handed the overdue book back to the library, Wells stepped up to the circulation desk and applied for a library card. She showed up at the Park Branch Library on Page Street on Friday along with Johnson. Another reason he brought it back is his cousin Judy Wells wanted to check it out. The author, in the story, suggests there are worst sins than being late, such as being cranky - a notion that Johnson says he fully endorses.Ĭonscience, along with the amnesty program, persuaded him to bring the book back. Since March, dozens of libraries have abolished the. Doolittle was returned to the McConnell Sydney Library in Nova Scotia 82. The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating many changes in daily life including the age-old practice of charging fines for overdue library books. The first story in Smith’s collection is about a cranky man who nearly misses a speaking engagement because of a late train. The book, titled 'Audels Mechanical Drawing Guide,' was 68 years and seven months overdue. A forestry worker captured the moment a large female moose turned the tables on a bear chasing down moose calves near Mara Lake, British Columbia, on June 8.Video taken by Ethan Fell shows the tense interaction when one calf stumbles and falls, the bear reaches the young animal, and the huge female moose charges the black bear. Hopkinson Smith, an author, artist and engineer who designed the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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