What I learned at Open House this year

For Open House the past few years, I have had a slide show on our foyer flat-screen of Afton Senior Class trips; from 1931 to present. It is a pretty good conversation starter.

This year an alumnus from the Class of 1968 stepped in and said, "You won't have one of my class on a trip." Sure enough, there was only a photo of their class at school.

Turns out their Washington, D.C. trip was cancelled due to that tumultuous year. In between Martin Luther King, Jr. being assassinated in April and Robert Kennedy being shot in June, the the Southern Christian Leadership Conference staged it's "Poor People's March" and "Resurrection City" in Washington during May and June. That was enough to dissuade school official from letting the trip take place.

Not only another example of the reach of history extending to Afton, NY once again, but of libraries being a place of discovery and life-long learning.