New Bedford Free Public Library

Massachusetts · United States · Manor

An older woman with dark hair streaked with grey, in a heavy navy coat, in the children's picture book room downstairs.

An employee of this library in New Bedford, Massachusetts encountered her in 1999.

An older woman, with dark hair streaked with grey, wearing a heavy navy blue coat. She was in the children's picture book room on the lower level.

Others report the feeling of being watched in that room.

Upstairs, in the reference room near the microfilm, there are further accounts.

The coat is what makes this one. A heavy navy coat is not period dress, it is not dramatic, and it is exactly what an older New England woman would wear into a library in winter. Nothing about the description would have made the employee look twice at the time.

The library is one of the oldest free public libraries in the country and holds the whaling records of the port, including the crew lists that Melville used.

It is open and in use.

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Where is New Bedford Free Public Library located?

New Bedford Free Public Library is in Massachusetts, United States.

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