RICHFORD, Vermont — It was a brief exchange, Monday afternoon, beside the community notice board near the Richford Free Library's front entrance. A patron stopped, read the accumulated notes — handwritten slips and printed cards that have gathered there over the past several weeks — then turned to library staffer Colette Aubin-Roy and asked a question nobody had thought to ask quite so plainly before.

Would the McGill collective consider using them? Photographs, or transcriptions? In Episode Six, now that editing is reportedly underway?

"It was the most direct anyone has been about it," Aubin-Roy said.

She told the patron she didn't know. The patron didn't leave a note of their own. They left.

That, more or less, is the whole of it — except that Aubin-Roy has been turning the question over in her mind since the collective's listener forum posted a thank-you message last week, one that named Richford specifically among communities whose responses had shaped the series. Seeing the town acknowledged in that context made the board feel different to her, though she struggled to say exactly how.

"It's always been a notice board," she said. "People leave things. That's what it's for."

But the notes that have accumulated in recent weeks are not exactly notices. They are responses — to the podcast, to each other, sometimes to nothing in particular except some feeling the series apparently stirred. One is a quotation. Another is a question addressed to no one. A few are in French.

Whether any of that material ends up in Episode Six is not Aubin-Roy's decision to make. She works at the library. She answers questions when she can.

This one, she cannot answer yet.