Rising up within the Forties, Ronald Clark had an expertise that sounds as if it was plucked from a youngsters’s ebook – he lived in a New York Metropolis public library. And certainly, he believed that residing on this ‘temple of information’, the place his father labored as a custodian, was a grand privilege, even because it led to emotions of distinction amongst his friends. On this temporary animation from StoryCorps, Clark recollects how rising up in a library, the place he might wander the stacks and browse late into the night time, would later result in his turning into a school professor – a job that made his father very proud.
