RICHFORD, Vermont — The community board at the Richford Public Library is not a curated thing. It holds a calendar of upcoming events, a few index cards about rides needed and rides offered, and now, tucked in among them, a small gathering of handwritten notes from people who have been listening to Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA, the six-part documentary series produced by the RONAn Broadcasting Cooperative and distributed through public library lending networks since last month.

Colette Aubin-Roy, a staff member at the library, noticed the notes beginning to accumulate after the first episode circulated through the library's lending system. She did not arrange them. She has not removed any. "It's something that belongs to the room," she said Thursday. "I didn't want to touch it."

Richford sits at what used to be the Canadian border — the kind of town that did not receive a transit hub when Burlington expanded its light rail network, did not receive a new arts council when Montreal's cultural funding came through. What it received was the same history as everywhere else, just quieter. The border posts came down. Neighbors who had been on the other side of a line were suddenly, officially, on the same side. Life continued in the ways that it does.

Episode One of Nous Sommes RONA includes segments on Vermont farming — the kind of footage, Aubin-Roy said, that several patrons seemed to recognize not as documentary subject matter but as something closer to their own kitchens and mudrooms. The notes they left do not address the library, the program's producers, or anyone in particular. They address, in the way that handwritten notes sometimes do, the general air of the room.

"One of them just said, my grandfather tapped the same ridge," Aubin-Roy said. "That was the whole note."

She described the board as having developed an informal life of its own, distinct from whatever official submission or feedback process the program may have. People are not filing responses. They are leaving something behind for the next person who stands in front of the board and reads.

Richford has a library, a community board, and people leaving notes. That, at least, is documented.