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On the road again

On the road again

Over the past few months, Secretary Wyman has been traveling around Washington on a number of multi-purpose trips. As she is the Secretary OF State, we’ve been calling these community visits her Secretary IN State tour. Since August, she’s visited Kelso and Longview in Cowlitz County; Vancouver and Camas in Clark County; Aberdeen in Grays Harbor County; Pasco, Richland and Kennewick in Benton and Franklin Counties; Walla Walla in Walla Walla County; Bellingham and Fairview in Whatcom County, Mount Vernon…

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Major Gen. Nam Pyo Park
Korea 65 exhibit profiles: Nam Pyo Park and Johnathon Kupka

Korea 65 exhibit profiles: Nam Pyo Park and Johnathon Kupka

Last Thursday’s launch for the new Legacy Washington exhibit, “Korea 65: The Forgotten War Remembered,” was a great event that brought a large crowd to the Capitol. You can watch TVW’s coverage of the exhibit launch here. The exhibit explores the stories of 13 Washingtonians who experienced the Korean War in different ways, from U.S. soldiers who fought in the war, to a nurse who worked in a MASH unit, to Korean Americans who grew up in Korea during or…

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1950 highway map
Check out 1950 Washington highway map

Check out 1950 Washington highway map

Most Washingtonians probably can’t even remember life before Interstate 5, I-90 and I-405 were built in our state. But a 1950 state highway map found on our Legacy Washington webpage shows the routes drivers traveled before the arrival of our interstate freeways. You can make some interesting observations by closely examining the map, which was published by the Washington State Highway Commission: The main north-south highway in Western Washington was U.S. 99, which connected Bellingham, Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and…

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Mutiny on the Aberdeen

Mutiny on the Aberdeen

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library In the last few years we have read about cruise ship vacations gone bad, to the point where the passengers form a “mutiny.” As we can see by the May 31, 1900 article from Port Townsend’s Weekly Leader, this sort of thing is nothing new: CONDITION ABOARD OF THE ABERDEEN Wild Rumors Circulated to the Effect that Passengers Had Mutinied. INSPECTORS OF VESSELS SEVERELY CRITICISED…

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Coffee-O the Alchemist

Coffee-O the Alchemist

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The random reel for this week contained the following article from the Dec. 17, 1920 issue of the South Bend Journal:  “COFFEE-O”, ONCE A RESIDENT, RETURNS AGAIN TO SOUTH BEND  Had Troubled Career — Is Sure He Can Make Gold — Fears Government Will Stop Him — Has Improved His Coffee Substitute.  “After over two years absence Albert Cornell, better known as ‘Coffee-O’ after a…

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Freedom Tails

Freedom Tails

A visit to the SCCC Library The Freedom Tails newsletter is a fun, uplifting and heartwarming chronicling of the canine training program at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen, WA.  It follows the exploits of the shelter dogs being trained by the inmate trainers during the 12-week program that prepares the dogs to be adopted by private owners. The newsletter was captured, cataloged and archived by the Historical & Digital Collections Program at the Washington State Library (WSL).  It…

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Stafford Creek is Going to the Dogs

Stafford Creek is Going to the Dogs

Stafford Creek Corrections Center has long welcomed the dogs from “Freedom Tails” dog program into the library, but never more so than on Library Snapshot Day 1/11/11. Many of the dog handlers are regular library patrons and they made a point to visit the library and were very happy to get their pictures taken. It went so well that they made it into the local newspaper of Aberdeen, The Daily World. Click on picture for full article.

From Your Corner of Washington: Aberdeen’s name

From Your Corner of Washington: Aberdeen’s name

This community along Grays Harbor is known for its plentiful rain, logging and shipping heritage, and for being Kurt Cobain’s hometown. But do you know how Aberdeen got its name? Platted in 1884 on Samuel Benn’s homestead between the Chehalis and Wishkah rivers, Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen, Scotland. There was an Aberdeen Packing Co. on Benn’s waterfront. Mrs. James B. Stewart, who hailed from the Scottish city, suggested that the new town be called after her native burg. The packing…

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