Dakota Datebook: Book burning in Drake

September 18, 2024 – When the janitor of Drake Public School tossed a pile of books into the building's furnace in 1973, he did not do so as a symbolic act or a political statement. The school always burned its waste, and the 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" were not being used by the students. But what the janitor did not realize was that those few insignificant books would beco...