Visiting books and Voting on Tuesday

Karen and I visited the Servpro warehouse in Bow where our books and furniture are now residing.  Servpro staff report that this is the biggest "clean out" they've ever done.  1,200 boxes of books are slowly being cleaned.  But they have to clean all of the shelving first.  It's quite a process.

As noted in earlier posts, each book will be wiped down with a special sponge and then stood up on end overnight in the hydroxyl chamber, which removes odor, bacteria and mildew.  Those that have been tested to date have come out smelling like.....library books.  Just the way we like them.

All furniture is also being tested to determine whether they can be cleaned, including wooden chairs and upholstered ones.  The furniture is twenty years old and was beginning to show wear.  I will be meeting with our insurance adjuster on Thursday at the warehouse to review the status of the furniture.  

Anyone remember napping on these chairs in front of the fireplace?  You will again, though maybe not on THESE chairs....

Carl Campbell from Servpro has been overseeing the clean up job.  I'd call him with a building issue in a heart beat...but we won't need to again.  Ever.  Please.

And things in our mini library on the lower level of Slusser continue to go smoothly.  On Monday we had a surprise visit from Michael York, the Director of the NH State Library.  It was great to talk to him about how we have been moving forward with our plans and to have his support.

On Saturday, Leigh Maynard took the library's show on the road with a tent set up at the Farmers Market in Contoocook.  Forty three people visited her tent  library; twenty of those were children who did her painted walking stick project.  Stay tuned for the next time a little library pops up in town!