Patron: How old is the library?
Me: This building was completed and opened in 1927. The library itself was founded in 1891.
Patron: You know what’s funny about you saying that? I was walking around this morning and I saw a church that said it opened in 1892.
Me: Neat
Patron: And it really gets you thinking.
Me: Does it?
Patron: Way way back then
Me: Wasn’t that long ago
Patron: They had churches, libraries… probably like a science?
Me: uh-huh.
Patron: And like, what else did they have? What did they know what we don’t?
Me: how to die of polio, mostly