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July 28, 2006: "100-Year-Old Librarian "Keeps Dust off the Floor" in Vinland
"For the last eight decades, Martha Cutter Kelley Smith has tended to the books at the Coal Creek Library. But not because she’s an avid reader."
“'I don’t read ’em,' Smith says. 'I’m not any kind of speed reader.'”
"But just as she has for the past 80 years, the 100-year-old Smith toils away at the state’s oldest library, keeping herself busy and keeping a monument to the small community of Vinland up and running."
