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True to type: Library coordinator creates innovative programs
Kim Fletcher loves literature, wanted to live in a college town and have a career in public service. She’s combined all three. Fletcher is youth services coordinator at Lawrence Public Library.
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Celebrating the can: 200 years of history preserved
The march of Western civilization and the prosperity of the United States have partly hinged on the quiet little object behind those boxes of pricey whole-grain rotini pasta on the third shelf of your cupboard. The object is cylindrical and silver and wrapped in a paper label. It is dusty. Its expiration date has passed. “You think it’s still good?” “I dunno. Open it. No, wait, don’t.”











