Grist: It seemed like one of the most wholesome, homespun things that a local library could do – but it was exactly how an innocent branch library like the Joseph T. Simpson Public Library in Mechanicsburg, Penn., headed down the road to lawbreaking.
It started this way. A local group called the Cumberland County Commission for Women had heard of a new thing that local libraries were doing – creating lending libraries for seeds. Someone found an old card catalog and turned it into seed packet storage….