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History Day: Vancouver students win state, compete in nationals

History Day: Vancouver students win state, compete in nationals

Washington State Archives Southwest Regional Archivist Tracy Rebstock proudly announces that the state’s top Junior Division 2018 History Day project comes from Pleasant Valley Middle School in Vancouver. Washington’s History Day is an annual contest conducted by National History Day, a nonprofit organization that engages students and teachers from across the United States to do original research on a topic of their choice and present it as a project. Original research on historical topics is right up the State Archives’…

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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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KILLER RABBITS OF PASCO?!?!

KILLER RABBITS OF PASCO?!?!

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library Monty Python introduced us to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, Jimmy Carter repelled an attack of a killer bunny while fishing in Georgia in 1979, and in the B-movie Night of the Lepus (1972) giant rabbits terrorize a small town in Arizona. But wait, there’s more! As Ed Wood might’ve asked, “My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about the KILLER RABBITS OF…

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A Bounty on Flies in Pasco

A Bounty on Flies in Pasco

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: A bounty for flies? The very thought brings a smile. It makes my Boomer brain recall the Monty Python skit of big game hunters hauling out the heavy ammo in order to capture an insect. Or that immortal line uttered in the movie Return of the Fly (1959) with Vincent Price: “What if Philippe does not have the mind of a human, but the MURDEROUS…

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Hikin’ Nell’s Varied and Vivid Experiences

Hikin’ Nell’s Varied and Vivid Experiences

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: From 1909 to 1921, give or take a few years, there was a woman who created a local news stir wherever she went, but somehow evaded the radar of national media. She criss-crossed the United States on foot and went under the name “Hiking” or “Hikin’” Nell. Nearly all the information sources I can find on Nell come from newspapers around the U.S. The following…

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From Your Corner of Washington

From Your Corner of Washington

– Pasco, Washington Secretary Reed this week visited an Eastern Washington seed manufacturing and packaging plant. The plant, operated by Syngenta, opened in June of this year.  Submit us your photo from your corner of Washington, and add our Facebook application.