Dead Man's Name on a Library Card: The Raymond Feld Case
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Dead Man's Name on a Library Card: The Raymond Feld Case
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A dead man's name appears on a library checkout card stamped October 6, 1994 - fourteen months after his burial - found inside a sealed room behind the Millgate branch library; how did a physical return date postdate a confirmed death? What hidden routine in a small-town library created a record that contradicts official ledgers?
In this episode, we tell how a journalist followed a single stamped card through eleven weeks of interviews and archives to trace the gap between an unofficial return system and the branch's formal records, and ask what that gap reveals about the invisible systems that bind a community together.
Person: Raymond Feld
Date: October 6, 1994
Location: Millgate branch library
Event: Duplicate checkout card stamped returned after death
Journalist: Grant Henderson
- The checkout card contained eleven blurred blue-ink dates and a name written in block letters: Raymond Feld.
- Raymond Feld died of cardiac arrest on August 4, 1993 and was buried on August 10, 1993 at age sixty-one.
- Feld's formal checkout history at Millgate spans March 1974 to July 1993, covering nearly twenty years.
- Arthur Wynn, Millgate branch manager since 1981, kept a lockbox in a utility corridor for duplicate cards and processed returns through a rear mail slot.
- The final stamp on the duplicate card was lighter, used a different stamping device, and bore ink consistent with standard library stamp ink on October 6, 1994.
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