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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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Didyaknow?…

Didyaknow?…

… that you can find real gold in our State Capitol?  (To be fair though, there’s so little of it that I used to tell tour groups there is more gold in my grandma’s teeth than in the capitol!) In the State Reception room hang six red French velvet curtains with a gold State Seal in the center.  Each seal was hand stitched by a different woman back in the 1920’s, so each of the seals are unique.  The thread used to write “The…

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