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After 35 years, Poppy Johnson retires from Floyd Memorial Library Poppy Johnson during her final day at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport Friday. (Credit: Steve Wick)
In 1986, after enrolling in secondary schools and dropping out and trying to be an artist in Paris, Poppy Johnson landed a part-time job at the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport.
Her years of searching for a path she could be happy on had taken her from Greenwich Village, where she grew up, to Barnard College, where she dropped out, to passage to Europe on a Norwegian freighter so she could try to be an artist in Paris, then back to the Rhode Island School of Design, where she also dropped out.