The Associated Press
CARLISLE, Mass.–A Massachusetts librarian on her first day on the job came across live military shells from the Civil War inside a closet in her new office.
Gleason Public Library director Abby Noland told The Boston Globe she found the shells yesterday morning inside a box with a label explaining they had been examined by a munitions expert and could be live.
She called police, who evacuated the library in Carlisle.
The state bomb squad later arrived and determined the shells were live.
It took the shells to the town transfer station to safely detonate them.
