Two Notes on the Board: Richford Residents Respond to 'Nous Sommes RONA'
A second Richford resident has returned an offline media card loaded with 'Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA,' leaving a handwritten note that now sits alongside the first on the community board at the Richford library.
RICHFORD, Vt. — The note was brief. A second Richford resident returned one of the library's three offline media cards — preloaded with the first episode of Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA, the RONAn public broadcaster's documentary series on life since confederation — this week, tucking inside it a small handwritten message for library staff member Colette Aubin-Roy. The Vermont farming segments, the patron wrote, were "hard to explain to someone who wasn't here, but right."
Aubin-Roy, who has become something of a quiet anchor for the series' arrival in this small border community, pinned the note to the community board beside the message left by the first borrower. Two notes now sit together. In a town that spent the last decade as border country, watching and absorbing, that patrons chose to write anything down at all — on paper, in 2042, when nearly every piece of media travels wirelessly and instantly — is not nothing.
The third and final card remains on loan. Aubin-Roy said she is considering preparing additional copies if interest holds. "I'll see when it comes back," she said.