History Matters: Will Jackson served as Riel's secretary

He was being evicted.
On Dec. 12, 1951, 90-year-old Honoré Jaxon, looking forlorn if not lost, was deposited on the sidewalk outside his midtown Manhattan apartment in New York City. Behind him steadily grew a pile of books, magazines, and papers. By the time city officials had finished emptying his cellar apartment, the stack measured six feet high, 10 feet deep, and 35 feet long.
Jaxon’s photograph, with his library now taking up a good part of a city block, ran as a human interes