Clough was hopeful that the library’s prospects would brighten, now that the latest storm had been weathered. The Free Town era, she told me, was at an end. “In the last few years, a lot of them have just disappeared off the face of the Earth,” she said. “It’s like we did with the Moonies back in the ’80s. We chewed them up and spit them out. Grafton has a way of doing that.”
