Warm Book on a Frozen Dumpster: Dead Man's Checkout Stamps
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Warm Book on a Frozen Dumpster: Dead Man's Checkout Stamps
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A hardback library book sat on a dumpster lid at 5:45 a.m. on a 31-degree morning in Fenwick, Ohio, and the cover was warm to the touch despite frost on every surface. Inside was a checkout card with eleven date stamps, including future dates three months ahead - who left it, and why were stamps added after the cardholder’s death?
In this episode, we follow how a morning runner’s photo led a temporary archive worker to two checkout cards that shared the same initials and a name tied to a man who died in 1993; the discovery raises the question of who was checking out books in a dead man’s name and what the initials R.S. really meant.
Person: Alice Vaughn
Location: Fenwick, Ohio
Date: October (day unspecified), 2011
Person: Troy Fleming
Person: Raymond Scholl
- The book was found at 5:45 a.m. on a 31-degree morning balanced on a dumpster lid.
- The cover of the hardback Practical Woodworking: Projects for the Home was warm to the touch.
- The checkout card inside had eleven date stamps, the first dated September 1984 and the last three stamped October 2011, November 2011, and January 2012.
- Two of the later stamps on other cards were dated April 1995 and June 1997, after Raymond Scholl’s death in March 1993.
- Troy Fleming processed approximately 4,000 paper checkout cards while working six weeks in the library archive and paused twice after finding cards with the same initials R.S.
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