A Sad Tale of a really interesting library up in Maine officially open just six hours a week. The North Monmouth Free Library is eccentric — and seems a vestige from a more innocent time. Most of the time, for example, the library employs an honor system. Patrons borrow a key, let themselves in, browse the stacks and leave a note telling what they’ve borrowed. The library, which opened in 1927, has never received much money — just a bit for books, magazine subscriptions and heat for the building.
“I understand that we can live without it,” Sanford said. “But a lot of us didn’t want to.”
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