CSPAN2 Trenton Free Public Library May 21, 2017
And, actually, that is how we were able to maintain some of the volumes today, because in, during the battle of trenton with the british and the hessians, they actually burnt the original library. And the only way that we were able to have any of the collection was that individuals had paid their subscription fee and actually had books at home. So a few years after the battle there was a plea to those individuals that was published in the newspaper, please, bring those volumes back. And the library can boast that we have two copies today theyre not in the best of shape, but we own them, and we...