It was Mother s Day, a Sunday, 1990, when I was called by my staff; who told me Mrs. Ashcroft wanted the Missouri State Library opened, recalls Monteria Hightower, who was then state librarian. Assuming the governor's wife wanted to show visitors around (and that I could make a pitch for new computers...), Hightower left her family at home and hurried to unlock the darkened library. She found Janet, outside in a car with a driver, accompanied only by a boy of 12. With astonishment, she heard Janet's reason for her Sunday appearance at the library: I want to find something on the Elizabethan era for my son s homework assignment. [thanks lis]