Richford Public Library Gets a Permanent Corkboard
A Northeast Kingdom carpenter arrived Tuesday at Richford Public Library to begin installing a permanent corkboard on the north wall, working carefully around the notes already pinned there. Staff say the board's bilingual exchanges gave him pause — in the best way.
RICHFORD, Vermont — The carpenter arrived Tuesday morning with his tools and, almost immediately, stopped to read the notes.
Work has begun on a permanent corkboard installation at Richford Public Library's north wall, a project months in the making for the small border community's library board. The Northeast Kingdom carpenter hired for the job is mounting the board in sections, a process library staff say could take a couple of days.
"He asked us to leave everything up," said Colette Aubin-Roy, a library staff member who has watched the community board grow into something the library did not quite plan for. "He didn't want to disturb it."
Before setting the first mounting bracket, the carpenter stood for a few minutes reading the newer notes — the ones where neighbors have been leaving messages in both English and French, a small, unorchestrated practice that has come to feel like a signature of the board.
He said little about it, Aubin-Roy noted. He just got to work.