Article 3H0WZ As a boy, Ronald Clark literally lived in a New York Public Library

As a boy, Ronald Clark literally lived in a New York Public Library

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David Pescovitz
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In the 1940s, Ronald Clark's father was a custodian at the New York Public Library's Washington Heights Branch. That meant he and his family lived in an apartment in the library. Here's an animated StoryCorps video about Clark's childhood in "The Temple of Knowledge" and "creeping down to the stacks in the middle of the night when curiosity gripped him."

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