Bean there, done that: hidden beans get found and then filed away at Ralph Pickard Bell
Back in early November, while library worker June Hicks was busy organizing the stacks in the aquaculture section of the Ralph Pickard Bell library, she happened on something unusual: an enormous can of beans.
“It’s not unusual for students to leave stuff around,” says Hicks. “But this is kind of unusual, a big can of beans.”
CHMA couldn’t resist dropping by the Ralph Pickard Bell Library back in November to hear the story of the giant can of beans:
Hicks says she was doing routine work in the agriculture and aquaculture section over the course of a few days, and one day happened upon the giant can, “on the bottom shelf, just as cozy as it can be.”
“I was just working away,” says Hicks, “when I got down off my stepstool one time, there were these beans staring at me, just like that. And I thought, what is this?”
Hicks didn’t just happen upon any old can of beans. This was a 2.84 litre (100 ounce) monster can of beans. “I don’t know who’d want to carry it around because it’s so heavy,” says Hicks.
Not surprisingly, none of Hicks co-workers were able to guess what she found before she revealed the hefty can on her library cart.… Continue