Arrr! A scallywag finally returns a cursed tome to Virginia after a grand ole' 50-year treasure hunt!
2024-08-31
Arrr, matey! A tome borrowed back in the year of our Lord 1974 has sailed back to the Hopewell treasure trove after a lass found it while scouring her sister’s shipshape abode! Aye, 'tis a fine yarn of lost booty returned to port!
Ahoy, me hearties! Gather ‘round for a tale of a wayward tome, lost to the briny deep fer a mighty five decades! A scallywag of a book, “Leaves of Grass” by that fine wordsmith Walt Whitman, sailed away from the Hopewell Branch of the Appomattox Regional Library in the year of our Lord, 1974, and only now has it returned to its rightful shores!'Twas a lass who found the book whilst scouring her sister’s quarters, like a treasure hunter on the high seas! The library be reckonin’ it was checked out two weeks prior, makin’ it a record-setting stowaway in the annals of overdue books. Aye, if the library still charged fines, this book would owe them a king’s ransom of $1,774 doubloons, but nay, they’ve cast aside such fees!
The library, having no qualms about the long-lost volume, welcomed its return with hearty shouts of joy. With tales of yore about the library’s glory days in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the employees shared laughs, making merry over this delightful reunion. So, raise a goblet to the return of this legendary book, proof that even the most elusive of treasures can find their way back home after a long, adventurous voyage!