RICHFORD, Vermont — On Sunday, a visitor passed through Richford, walked into the public library, read the notes on the community board, and added one of their own.

The board has been accumulating patron messages for several months, an unplanned development that grew out of the library's modest display tied to the Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA community reading initiative. People began leaving slips of paper — reactions, small memories, a few in French, most in English, some in both. Nobody asked them to. Nobody is curating it in any formal sense.

Staff member Colette Aubin-Roy noticed the new note Sunday afternoon. She could tell it was from outside town by the Montreal postal abbreviation written at the top of the slip.

The note reads, in French: "Ça ressemble à quelque chose qui devrait exister partout."

It feels like something that should exist everywhere.

Aubin-Roy has not tried to find out who wrote it. She has no plans to.

"It came from somewhere, it landed here," she said. "That feels like enough."

The board remains near the front window.