Seattle's Visqueen has long felt like a closely guarded regional secret, in part because singer Rachel Flotard spent the past few years caring for her terminally ill father.
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
The people of Otta have followed those instructions, caring for the package (at least, aside from the couple times it was apparently misplaced over the past century) and keeping it undisturbed.
The failure to do so after the first of the 21-sickle cell related deaths over the past decade and other heart-related deaths cannot objectively be explained away without serious doubt about whether there was sufficient caring and action at a high level for those student athletes.