Pennsylvania seed-library caper grows loopier

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By Heather SmithAug 12, 2014, 2:13 pm22 pts
A few days ago I wrote about the strange saga of the Joseph T. Simpson Public Library in Mechanicsburg, Penn., the little library that accidentally fell afoul of the regulatory authority of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Joseph T. Simpson had converted an old card catalog into a seed lending…

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