Saturday, October 9, 2010
Mr. and Mrs. Gassett have always been in my thoughts when I think of Halifax, a sentiment I'm sure I share with all the Binns family as we offer our condolences. As personal friends of our parents and as redoubtable public stewards in their respective realms, they were always models to me. And if Mrs. Gassett's cheerful guidance of this Cub Scout in the 1950s was a lost cause, her dedication to books has always resonated most deeply with me, as it did for our mother who took us to the library weekly from infancy and who served 15 years as a trustee, and with my sister, who worked there.
