Originally Posted by
EastsideAl
Richard, you're talking past me. Look back earlier in this thread at my long post giving the story of what happened to the Mark Twain Branch [[I posted it in an earlier thread about the Mark Twain Library - Lowell seems to have conveniently combined the threads).
Believe me, if there was someone to talk to, the folks involved talked to them. Starting with the library board themselves, who were the ones who first came to the neighborhood with the wonderful idea to renovate the library, rather than simply repairing its roof. An idea that, in a particularly ugly turn of events, eventually led to its demolition.