Stumbled onto a censored archive in a small library in Vermont

I was killing time at the public library in Brattleboro last week and found a locked filing cabinet labeled 'Local News 1973-1985' that the librarian said was off-limits. She whispered that it contained stories about a factory fire and a townhall protest that got scrubbed from the state records after the paper folded. Has anyone else run into hidden local news stashed away in a small town library?

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kai_bennett1d ago

Come on, you really think some old filing cabinet in a tiny Vermont library is hiding anything important. Librarians love to act mysterious and whisper stuff like that to make themselves feel important. If a factory fire or a townhall protest was actually a big deal, there would be public records somewhere else, not just some locked drawer no one thinks to check. Odds are it's just old legal forms or someone's tax records that got misfiled and the librarian spun a story because you looked interested. Honestly, people want to believe in hidden secrets so bad they ignore how boring real paperwork usually is.

gray_schmidt821h ago

Maybe it's just me but talking to the older town librarian got me a peek at their old microfilm collection.