Dear Fellow Reader,

I hope you enjoy this book! Please leave a note here so that we know it is safe with you.

I am bookcrossing it in memory of Lucille Oakley, who owned it originally.

She was a mainstay of the Paoli Friends Meeting (in Paoli, Indiana), and she was generous to others, volunteering for charities and willing to contribute to any good cause. She suffered from arthritis most of her adult life, but she didn’t let it stop her, and I don’t remember her ever complaining. She loved to read. She especially liked books about Quakers and Quakerism, and she also enjoyed other books with Christian themes.

She was a young mother during World War II, and she worked in a small-town newspaper office most of her life. I remember her calling up folks around town to ask them, “any news today?” If they had had a big party or some other event of local interest, she’d write up a story about it. Her main job, though, was to operated a linotype. The linotype was a monster of a machine – noisy and dangerous – that created lines of type used for printing the newspaper. There was a keyboard in the front of it, and when she pressed a key, the machine lined up a tiny mold for that letter. Once a whole line of these molds was ready, the machine poured hot lead into it, and when the lead cooled, it was a line of type. Occasionally, hot lead would spill out, and she had lots of little white scars on her forearms.

Thanks for taking care of this book! Feel free to keep it as long as you like, but when you’re done with it, please pass it on to a friend or a stranger (and let us know what you did with it).

TaylorHarrogate

this book showed up at my front door. am curious as to how it got there

CAUGHT IN FORT WAYNE INDIANA USA

RELEASE NOTES:

Walking through the neighborhood and dropped the book off on a doorstep.