Last Saturday, with all the rain, our astute custodian, Joey, heard an odd noise. He went to investigate and couldn't believe what he found -- there was water pouring from the overhead lights in the Bryant Room -- our local history materials were at risk! Within minutes, Leo, our head custodian and his son, Hector, and librarians from the Reference Desk were upstairs helping. Myrna Sloam, the Bryant Room archivist and Cathy Mealing, our director, were quickly on their way from home. It is said that Hector moved the grandfather clock that belonged to William Cullen Bryant all by himself -- the water was pouring in right above it! Myrna and Cathy got everything out of soaked boxes as quickly as they could and left them to dry. There are valuable, irreplaceable materials in that room like original letters from William Cullen Bryant, documents, photographs, maps as well as newspaper clipping files. We do all we can to protect these precious materials, including staffing the room and locking it when it when it's not staffed -- I guess we have to start from the top down -- in other words, from the roof!