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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="WSH Museum"][/caption] Ten years ago, I had a library visit from a hospital staffer who excitedly asked me to provide him information about the "dead people in the park." Although I've received some odd questions during my years in the library of a state psychiatric hospital, this request was something unusual even for me. I suppressed a grin and asked him to give me more details.

Glenn Parsons of Library Technical Services has had some major changes in his job duties, recently splitting hours between his longtime Acquisitions position and

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On the eve of the second World War in 1941, Ellensburg city engineer and amateur photographer Fred L. Breckon began a multi-year pursuit documenting men and women of his town through his camera's lens. An astoundingly ambitious project, Breckon made many of these photographs during his lunch break on the sidewalks of downtown Ellensburg.