2020: The year that was Wicked Local The U.S., indeed the world, experienced extraordinary occurrences in 2020, the largest and perhaps most devastating being the coronavirus. COVID-19 spread across the globe shutting down cities and small towns, closing businesses, interrupting travel, mandating citizens to shelter inside, severely disrupting families and killing nearly 400,000 in the U.S. and 2.04 million, worldwide. Closer to home, the Wellesley Free Library, ordered to temporarily shut down and staff to work-from-home for several months like most businesses and institutions in the state and town, opened its doors to patrons again, on a limited basis, in late August. Upon returning to the library, staff rejoiced at seeing their peers and shared with one another how the pandemic and other unprecedented events taking place in 2020 affected their lives. Feelings of loss, anxiety, fear, loneliness, anger, disillusionment and other emotions are commonly experienced and continue as COVID-19 causalities persist. Often staff talk about what they have learned, how they process and deal with the gamut of emotions experienced, ranging from the pandemic, to the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, to the presidential election, to racial division, to the rise in white extremism.