Now I'm really baffled. Why is the whole town in on this secret? It is long past time for Jon to know everything about his father.
Mrs. Meeks reminds me of one of the librarians in my hometown, Mrs. Clark. (yes, that was her real name) She was always willing to show us around the stacks and the ancient microfiche machine, believe me back in the early seventies that was real chore!
Anyways, when he was in high school, the library had some funding problems. We needed more money for renovations and such. And your dad…” <<Gosh, what a kid. I miss him. Wish things had turned out differently.>> “…your dad wrote an article for the school newspaper. It ended up getting picked up by the Wichita Post and reprinted by the Kansas City Star. And that article helped to bring in more than twice the money we needed to keep this place up and running and make the repairs and… He was a wonderful man, your father. I just…thought you should hear that.”
This sounds like something Clark would do to save his beloved library.
