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Keynote speaker John Palfrey spoke with almost reverence about the role of public libraries in a democracy. The president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation was on hand in Acton to celebrate with the community on the occasion of the public library’s 150th birthday. “We should pause to celebrate when things go right because it is not so easy for institutions to persist for this long, for years counted in the hundreds,” he said. “It takes good leadership, community investment, ideas, listening and evolving. It takes reckoning with the past and building for the future.” Palfrey flew
