Say What?!: Wilkes-Barre Library Waives $554 Fee After Book Returned 75 Years Late

| February 19, 2017

Val RideWilkes-Barre, Pa. – A Pennsylvania library said it waived a $554 late fee for a book that was returned by a man whose father checked it out more than 75 years ago.

The Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre said in a Facebook post that the book, Val Rides the Oregon Trail by Sanford Tousey, was checked out on Dec. 2, 1941 — five days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — and was returned Wednesday.

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