As Irene was preparing an ancient address book for recycling, she pulled out the pages and ripped the book in half, at which time she discovered that the padded covers had been lined with rectangles of newspaper to give them some heft. There were about a dozen or so slips bound within each side. While we have no idea of the dates of the newspapers from which these were sliced, we think that the address book itself had to have been about forty years old.

Three of the pages contained commercial artwork. Neither one of us can read the text, so we have no idea what’s being illustrated, but still, this was an intriguing, serendipitous discovery.

It makes me wonder what else lies hidden away within book covers, perhaps never to be found!