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December 09, 2005: Preserving California's History from Mould, Fire and Bugs
"Something "weird" caught the eye of Yolo County employee Mel Russell as she was cleaning the stacks of the county historical archive this June. A dark-red leather binding, shrink-wrapped as a protection against dust, looked oddly "mottled" through the plastic. Upon closer inspection, so did other volumes on adjoining shelves. "I got nervous," Russell recalls. "'What is that?'"
