The night of June 9, Jerry Crain didn’t sleep.
“I was here the night it caught fire,” he said.
From a table at Church Street Park, Crain gestured across the street to Nashville Public Library.
“We heard a whole lot of sirens,” he said. “A whole lot of police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and we thought it was this building, right? We didn’t know where it was. It kept us up all night.”
Ten weeks later, the front doors remain padlocked.