Eventually the St. Tammany Parish Library operated the Covington branch at 405 N. Jefferson Avenue.
I often told my mother I was going to this branch to study, but I was really going to meet girls.
I got shushed and admonished a lot by the librarian, Mrs. Alice Rogers.
As an adult I would become chairperson of the Parish Library Board of Control ... but Miss Alice could still shush me : )