US woman returns 74-year overdue library book
December 10th, 2010 - 12:09 pm ICT by ANILondon, Dec 10 (ANI): An American woman has been fined 2,700 dollars after she returned a library book 74 years after her husband borrowed it.
85-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento says a friend found a book that her late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale, reports the Telegraph.
Severson told The Sacramento Bee newspaper that she and her husband Howard were newly-weds back when he checked out the hardback, Seaplane Solo, about Sir Francis Chichester’s 1930 solo flight across the Tasman Sea.
Luckily for Severson, the library did not charge her the fee, though it did accept a small donation when she finally returned the book on Oct. 13.
Librarian Laura Einstadter says the library was just happy to get the book back. (ANI)
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