History is for the Birds

Summer is a very busy season in the Marston Room, our history and genealogy collection is stored here. Usually, it's just genealogists traveling from around the country. This year we noticed strange noises coming from the walls of the Marston Room; not our usual bats, or our ghostly Librarian who can get quite temperamental about glass cabinets being left open. This year we seem to have birds living in the walls! We have had sparrows nesting for years on one of Library's many ledges. They got clever and found a way into the building so now as researchers toil away on their genealogies they are serenaded by the happiest, safest little birds in Dover.