He credits the imaginary world spread out before him to his friend Caleb Wellbrock, whose son is playing back in the stacks with Guscott’s son.
“We’re just getting ready for our game today,” he said as I walked into the Willamina Public Library.
Hand-crafted and -painted rivers, valleys, dead trees, and ruins populated by the plastic figures of a Warhammer session await a few young men who will be arriving shortly. Midday on a gray Saturday in October, Richard Guscott, sporting a Mario Brothers sweatshirt and jeans, presides over a sprawling, custom gaming table. Crook, a professional comics artist, says, “We live in some pretty challenging times and libraries are uniquely suited to provide the things that our community needs.” Photo by: David Bates Tyler Crook, chair of the Willamina Public Library board, leads a Saturday drawing workshop.
