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Snapshots of History
Using a Culture Preservation Grant from HK, the Anderson County Historical Society Museum set out to catalog and digitize Philip Strain's photographs, with the help of the community.
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Hotline: Winter Reading Recommendations
Miranda Ericsson, Readers Librarian for the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, gives some fun winter reading recommendations.
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Hotline: Ghosts in Literature
Kim Stanley of McPherson College discusses the role of ghosts in Western literature, from The Odyssey to Hamlet to The Haunting of Hill House.
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