Krape Park

Like, there's all this stuff in the County Museum from it, and there's no national connection.

He and I sat at City Hall together for an hour and a half in total, talking about these old buildings and local lore, like, um, rumors about the Raleigh Country House and the mafia, the chimpanzee who was kept in Crape Park.

But to end our conversation, I wondered if he had his own personal favorite piece of Freeport history.

I should have known that for a historian and teacher and librarian who was centered in a very specific place for most of his adult life, falling in love with it, investing in it, leading it, being a figurehead in some ways, coming to know it intimately, that would be an impossible question to answer.